Nick Tosches Quotes
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
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When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
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Ain't no problem with me and Kevin Gates; everybody just trippin'.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.
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Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.
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If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.
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There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.
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The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
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I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.
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(intro) Well, here we go. This is the first book I've written since 1975, when I was in the 7th grade and wrote Boogers Are Good Eatin'. (p. 1).
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As feminism made this transition from equal opportunity to unequal opportunism, I made my transition from supporter to critic. But in my inner psyche, there was no transition: I went from supporter of equality to supporter of equality.
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I'd just love to ride off into the sunset with my love. I've only seen the sunset so far. Maybe I can earn my own Ferrari so I can ride off in the sunset without anyone by my side.
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Our concern is solely with the basic structure of society and its major institutions and therefore with the standard cases of social justice.
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Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies.
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What I've learned, traveling the country and doing book signings, Mama's biscuits - you know, somebody in Montana's got their version of Mama's biscuits, somebody in California's got their version - so it made me realize that we're not as regionalized as we think we are.
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As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
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The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.
