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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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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Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.
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Communication is like the basics of mechanical engineering, the more moving parts you have the more likely it is to break down!
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The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.
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Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
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From then on, my idea of grace is fulfilling your talent completely, and my only idea of sin is misusing that gift. The dread of not becoming completely what you can be is so strong that sometimes later in life it will paralyze me. How horrible to do the wrong thing, the thing that doesn't express your essence - and how horrible to fall short of your powers, or to discover that they might be more meager than their seemingly limitless potential!
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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.
