Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We were called Fizz. I have no idea why we picked that. We were, like, 12 years old.
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With publicity comes humiliation.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.
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There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.
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The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I'm not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.
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My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my career between when I was 45 and 49 years old. That's when most people are in their twilight, waiting to get to the Champions Tour. And that's when I made most of my hay.
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I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.
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I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.
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The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.
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If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.
