Nigel Kennedy Quotes

If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.

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• I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.

  

  Ralph Norman
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• Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.

  

  Nancy Willard
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• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
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• Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
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• The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.

  

  Tariq Ali
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• I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it's an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe.

  

  Parker Posey
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• I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

  

  Gary Weiss
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• Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

  

  Ram Dass
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• America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.

  

  Edmund White
  • America
  • Law
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• There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
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  • Religion

• Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.

  

  Warren Moon
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• I'm not good at multi-tasking.

  

  Natalie Maines
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• I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

  

  T-Pain
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• I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • World
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• Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

  

  Ellen Willis
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• Mostly I want to talk positive; I wanna talk about a bunch of great kids that I coached and made me look good and the university that I've seen grow from a cow college, which it was, only 12,000 people, and when I came here, we weren't at Pennsylvania State University, we were at Penn State College.

  

  Joe Paterno
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• And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

  

  Maya Angelou
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• A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
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• I grew up in India. From my childhood, I remember the great reverence that people held for our national hero, Mahatma Gandhi. He galvanized millions to march as one, disarmed the empire that had ruled his country for nearly a century, and enabled India to become a free and independent nation.

  

  Punit Renjen
  • People
  • Up
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• I didn't know music would end up being my job, but I loved it so much I wanted to do it every day.

  

  Mat Kearney
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  • Music
  • Job

• But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

  

  Jack Schmitt
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• Sometimes I wish we were the Eagles. That's one thing they've always been able to do is want the same thing for the same reasons.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
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• The cost of living is so high in Northern Virginia.

  

  Lee J. Cobb
  • High
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• If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.

  

  Nigel Kennedy
  • Job
  • Moment
  • Technique