Nick Nolte (Nicholas King Nolte) Quotes
Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.
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When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.
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Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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I'm a big believer in keeping the stage directions really tight.
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I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.
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The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.
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Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.
