Nicholas James Bates (Nick Rhodes) Quotes

I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet.

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• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Meaning

• I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • School
  • Money
  • High

• My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Me

• I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Spiritual
  • Positive
  • Driven

• I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Good
  • Man
  • Trump

• I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Attitude
  • Opinions
  • Trends

• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  

  Gary Busey
  • You
  • Short
  • Take

• I like to do Pilates.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Like
  • Pilates

• There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Wish
  • Always
  • Three

• Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • You
  • Effort
  • Improve

• Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Spiritual
  • Psychology
  • Intelligence

• I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Myself
  • Worry
  • Prepare

• I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Problem
  • Opinion
  • Yourself

• Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • You
  • More
  • Fit

• I don't know about you, but I love going on trips - especially with my family.

  

  Becky G
  • Family
  • Love
  • Know

• Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Art
  • House
  • Coffee

• My first proper kitchen was this funny little club that we set up in Mercer Street in Covent Garden. It got shut down. Then I worked at a club in Notting Hill.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Garden

• I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Reading
  • Doubt
  • Revolution

• During war time, when people were injured, I was really frustrated I did not become a doctor. It's painful not being able to save people, witnessing their pain.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • People
  • Time
  • War

• Trauma really does confront you with the best and the worst. You see the horrendous things that people do to each other, but you also see resiliency, the power of love, the power of caring, the power of commitment, the power of commitment to oneself, the knowledge that there are things that are larger than our individual survival. And in some ways, I don't think you can appreciate the glory of life unless you also know the dark side of life.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Knowledge
  • Commitment
  • Trauma

• I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Remember

• I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet.

  

  Nicholas James Bates Duran Duran
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Attention