Nicholas James Bates (Nick Rhodes) Quotes
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
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I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
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I would love to work on a Bond film.
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Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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In order to help small businesses gain access to the credit and capital they need to run their business successfully, Congress must adopt policies that support functional capital markets without imposing undue restrictions on providers of debt and equity capital.
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For me, Warhol made so much sense.
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I love to play the game, love to be around the rink, and love to joke around with my teammates and have some fun.
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It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.
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Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged to fight and die on the strength of promises that had already been traded away-were many who regarded that policy as utterly shameful, an affront to British dignity.
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I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.
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There's definitely been times where there's stuff that I have not been comfortable with, and I've had to put my foot down.
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I’m not super-comfortable with it. I feel the less you project of yourself the more you can be believable as a character. I also think it’s just better for your own mental health. Then you can be a human being and change your mind and nobody asks you questions about it!
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I suppose that I'm fairly comfortable with the clown hat on.
