Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times what saved me.

Nicole Kidman

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• Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

  

  Barry Goldwater
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• Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.

  

  Madchen Amick
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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
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• I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.

  

  Vijender Singh
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• The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

  

  C. L. R. James
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• God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
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• One rose says more than the dozen.

  

  Wendy Craig
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• No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Failure
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• I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Time
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  • Collector

• With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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• I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.

  

  Laura Ricketts
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• Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

  

  Hallie Ephron
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• I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
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• I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

  

  Imran Khan
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• Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.

  

  Brown Campbell
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  • Never

• I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

  

  Barnett Newman
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• I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.

  

  Bong Joon-ho
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• Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

  

  John Schlesinger

• Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

  

  Abraham Verghese
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• The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.

  

  Jim Sensenbrenner
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• Part of why history is so important in my life is because it brings you an awareness that everything isn't new. It gives context to what's happening right now. History is cyclical but circumstances and technology change. So when social justice topics come up, they're not new. They're just being covered more. We have more ways to record it now.

  

  Yara Shahidi
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• As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times what saved me.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Life
  • Child
  • Books