Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes

If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.

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• Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• 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.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Think

• 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.'

  

  Randy Moss
  • Life
  • Family
  • Daughter

• 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.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Never
  • Jump

• I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Think
  • Far
  • Expensive

• 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.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Why
  • Day

• With publicity comes humiliation.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Publicity
  • Humiliation

• There is not love where there is no will.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Will

• To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Business
  • American

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Choice

• There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Financial
  • Crisis
  • Banks

• The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.

  

  W. H. Murray
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  • Soul
  • Loving

• Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

  

  Carl Lewis
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  • Me
  • Keep

• The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Father
  • Religion
  • Son

• There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Trying
  • You
  • Aesthetic

• I accused a woman of doing something behind my back when I knew that she hadn't, just to see if she loved me.

  

  Tyrese Gibson
  • She

• I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.

  

  Christine Quinn

• We've all heard about people who've exploded beyond the limitations of their conditions to become examples of the unlimited power of the human spirit. You and I can make our lives one of these legendary inspirations, as well, simply by having courage and the awareness that we can control whatever happens in our lives. Although we cannot always control the events in our lives, we can always control our response to them, and the actions we take as a result. If there's anything you're not happy about--in your relationships, in your health, in your career--make a decision right now about how you're going to change it immediately.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Career
  • Change

• Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Career
  • Confidence
  • Humble

• If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.

  

  Nicole Kidman
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  • Person
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