Nicolas Kent Stahl (Nick Stahl) Quotes
I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
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James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.
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I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.
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This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Garry Kasparov
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It was here at the age of seventeen that I suspended my religious inquiries.
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I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.
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It's an awful thing to be aware of your own corruption. I think a lot of people are bound by the particular economic system we work in to serve companies and masters who aren't really telling people what they're doing.
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Plan B is a plan to fail. You should always give 110% to what you plan to do for plan A.
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Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.
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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
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In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.
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When it's good it's great, it's really great.
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When we had the 'flash crash' in 2010, where the price of some stocks briefly fell to zero, high-frequency trading played a big role in that event.
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Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.
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I became interested, through reading the works of some novelist, in Egyptology and made a study of the pyramids. It was just a hobby, but I had a desire to know all I could about everything I could.
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I've had social anxiety forever - I don't thrive in social or party settings.
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God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.
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Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way.
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I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.
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I think that Ryu Chishu, or Tanaka Kinuyo, or to be more precise, the imaginary characters they portrayed, were more real to the film buffs than any existing human being. This is why cinephiles are spookier, on the whole, than music lovers or balletomanes. For they are creatures of the dark, getting off on the lives of others.
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The shock value is gone from what was considered shocking even five to 10 years ago, which is why it's gone where it is today . . . it's easier to push the limits with something that is temporary.
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I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.
