Nicholas James Bates (Nick Rhodes) Quotes
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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One can only imagine how Iranians or Afghans would deal with unelected judges moving to de-Islamicize their nations.
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It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.
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One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.
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Good habits in America make any man rich.
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When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.
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This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.
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The US Treasury is simply not a church building fund.
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Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams.
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Until you have bred dogs and have drawn and painted them, it is difficult to realize that no two are identical in conformation. You need do no more than gun for a day over two of them to recognize that each is an individual. It requires the intimacy of daily living with a dog to know the subtle quality of his mind, the ham-smell of his ears, and that his wet nose in your mouth tastes salty.
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A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.
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Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?
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In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements your personal integrity.
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Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, Is the inability of people to communicate with the people they love: husbands and wives who can't communicate, Children who can't communicate with their parents, and so on. And the characters in these books and plays and so on, And in real life, I might add, spend hours bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate. I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up!
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My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.
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I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my people. I grew up with an image of God that was not helpful -- largely the face of my father expanded.
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Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful.
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I find that the older you get, the more helpful eyeliner is.
