Nick Rahall (Nick Joe Rahall II) Quotes
But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.
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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
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Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
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The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.
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I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.
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The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.
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We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.
