Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
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In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.
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The thunder rolls,And the lightnin' strikes.Another love grows coldOn a sleepless night.As the storm blows onOut of control,Deep in her heartThe thunder rolls.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What does the scientist have to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!
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I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
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I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write.
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I go to museums all the time.
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I liked television, and television liked me.
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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
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I was, by divine grace, enabled to bring all my sins and all my sorrows and lay them at the feet of Jesus, and to receive the blessed assurance that He had accepted me, all sinful and polluted as I was.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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It is very possible that a proper understanding of string theory will make the space-time continuum melt away.... String theory is a miracle through and through.
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Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.
