Nick Tosches Quotes
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.
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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital interests are at stake, establishing an objective other than winning is not only counterproductive, but also irresponsible and wasteful. In some circumstances, it is also unethical.
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Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
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I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.
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When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
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When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.
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Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.
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Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.
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Time. There is much time left and lots of life seasons. There is much to see, to do, and to be.
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It is always easier to see in another what we are uncomfortable with in ourselves.
