Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he's got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He's got to be a bit smart.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.
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If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.
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For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.
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I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
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First create jobs, and then provide skills to people.
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Men create the gods after their own images.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the desire to create; and that is apt to happen to a mathematician rather soon. It is a pity, but in that case he does not matter a great deal anyhow, and it would be silly to bother about him.
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It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.
