Nicholas Offerman (Nick Offerman) Quotes

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• It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Clinton
  • Retire

• I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Life
  • Different
  • Why

• I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Learning
  • Thought

• 'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Done
  • Me

• To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a meat eater and a griller - I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Me

• I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wife and I bought a house up in the Catskills. I miss Brooklyn, but the commute to the Catskills is about 45 minutes shorter.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Up
  • House
  • City

• I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Rich

• What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Work
  • Right

• Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Education
  • Common Sense

• Pascal is called the founder of modern probability theory. He earns this title not only for the familiar correspondence with Fermat on games of chance, but also for his conception of decision theory, and because he was an instrument in the demolition of probabilism, a doctrine which would have precluded rational probability theory.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Decision

• By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Law

• Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Culture
  • Present
  • Grandmother

• To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Truth
  • Past

• And who (in time) knows whither we may ventThe treasure of our tongue? To what strange shoresThis gain of our best glory shall be sentT' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?What worlds in the yet unformed OccidentMay come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Time
  • May

• Wo Politik ist oder Oekonomie, da ist keine Moral.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Moral

• Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.

  

  Le Corbusier
  • Green

• I think Dutch people are very sober. I don't know if it's the right word. Like, you have the most famous person walk by some Dutch people, and they're like, 'Oh, hello.' And they maybe take a photo, but most of the time, they'll respect you and leave you alone. And if you go to some other countries they will literally mob you, go crazy.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • People
  • Time
  • Respect

• They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing.

  

  Kathie Lee Gifford

• The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.

  

  David Friedrich Strauss
  • May
  • Reality
  • Supernatural

• Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Practice

• A heart makes a good home for the friend.

  

  Yunus Emre
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Home

• Making movies is hard for me. Being on set is very trying. I'm not good at being that communicative for that long. Editing is where I'm happiest.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Good
  • Long
  • Trying

• I've learned through experience that to trouble celebrities with my handshake doesn't do anybody any good.

  

  Nicholas Offerman
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