Nicholas James Bates (Nick Rhodes) Quotes

MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.

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• We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Appearance

• There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • President
  • Battle
  • Syria

• Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Very
  • Iran
  • Effective

• I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Question
  • Day

• Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Look

• I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • Story
  • Connection

• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • See
  • Genius
  • Seed

• It is important to be still and listen and follow the Spirit.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Important
  • Spirit
  • Follow

• It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Business
  • Profession
  • Egocentric

• You don't have to carry a gun to be a freedom fighter.

  

  Mac Maharaj
  • Freedom
  • Gun
  • Fighter

• He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep.

  

  Euripides
  • Dance
  • Honor
  • Force

• For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and order.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Law
  • Force
  • Revolutionary

• Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Force
  • Impulse
  • Human History

• French girls don't care about the perfect look; we actually like when it's not perfect because that's what makes our style effortless.

  

  Jeanne Damas
  • Style
  • Look
  • Effortless

• I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Think
  • Very
  • Respectful

• MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.

  

  Nicholas James Bates Duran Duran
  • Force