Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
I'm not drawn to stories that are just sort of fluffy. I'm just not, and I've tried to, and as a kid I was never drawn to them. I always chose complicated.
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Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
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There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
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There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.
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You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.
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What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
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This office is not going to make that decision about rescheduling this game.
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Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.
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One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.
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I think one of the core ideas in America has always been conversation and being able to question our systems of government, and being able to dictate our own communities and how we want this country to work. And I feel like we're losing part of that because of the way that even our current political campaign is centered more around celebrity than anything else, and so we're kind of losing conversation. We're still having conversations, but they seem to be more about like Donald Trump's hair and like memes of his face more than anything else.
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I didn't get to be this smart by not being stupid
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Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.
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If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.
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I am interested in beauty. I think with beauty comes poetry, comes the lyrical. I think beauty is concerned with justice…
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As I was sitting there, the deejay was playing music and talking over the music, and the kids were going crazy. All of a sudden, something said to me, 'Put something like that on a record, and it will be the biggest thing.' I didn't even know you called it rap.
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I'm not drawn to stories that are just sort of fluffy. I'm just not, and I've tried to, and as a kid I was never drawn to them. I always chose complicated.
