Nick Swardson (Nicholas Roger Swardson) Quotes
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
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This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake.
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Two key rules of Third World travel: 1. Never run out of whiskey. 2. Never run out of whiskey.
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The first deaths will barely swell the daily count, and no one in the statistics bureau will notice that extra zero. But after a while everyone will begin to look at each other and ask: what's happening? Because for months doors and windows are going to rattle, furniture and trees will creak.
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Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
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The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.
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We ask our neighbors in Saudi Arabia to stop hindering the rule of law and healthy economic development through the purchase of politicians and tribal leaders.
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Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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Because Republicans have no ideas, they want to turn elections into the battle of dollars.
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I started when I was about 11, singing.
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My inclination is to whip the rebellion into submission, preserving all Constitutional rights. If it cannot be whipped any other way than through a war against slavery, let it come to to that legitimately. If it is necessary that slavery should fall that the Republic may continue its existence, let slavery go.
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Babies are like the smallest, drunkest people you know.
