Nick Saban (Nicholas Lou Saban Jr.) Quotes
Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.
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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
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It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I am not taking anything for granted.
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Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
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The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
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Halva works brilliantly in ice-cream.
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Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.
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You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.
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Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.
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Buying a Ferrari is like buying Château Pétrus if you like fine wines. It's the safe choice.
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It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
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They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, of all people, this talent. It is to Him that I must give account. How then would I stand there before Almighty God, if I followed the others and not Him?
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If you look at the ecosystem, entrepreneurs as a class have gotten younger, younger, and younger. They also as a class have become less and less and less experienced. The good part about that is that you're unlocking this ability to start a company to so many more people. That's an amazing positive. The negative is they're coming to that job with dramatically less experience than they've ever had. So there needs to be someone around the table that can then help them.
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A lot of the characters I play on Japanese shows are actually acted in Japan by women. I don't know what that says about me.
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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
