Nick Nolte (Nicholas King Nolte) Quotes
A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.
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A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
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Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
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There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.
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The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
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I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.
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Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
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I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.
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I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment.
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I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.
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I think the grandfather of the set is the director. He needs to have authority, to do what people want. A warm grandfather; he needs to know his job, to be open.
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Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.
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I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.
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My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.
