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.

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

  

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

  

  Barnett Newman
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• It's just this little comedy about this group of guys, and their local hangout is a pool hall, and it's starting to get taken over by this big corporate, evil kind of guy. And it's just about them trying to save the day and their little pool hall in the process of it all. It's called 'Think Tank.'

  

  Aaron Ruell
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• There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.

  

  Lee R. Raymond
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• There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• If you never put your life in someone else's hands, then you can't really expect them to put theirs in yours. In the long run, never trusting anyone is a hard way to live.

  

  Sabrina Jeffries
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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
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  • Child
  • Books