Steve Nash (Stephen John Nash) Quotes
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
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I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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If I had any humility I would be perfect.
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I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.
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I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it?
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Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
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Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.
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That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.
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What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
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Communication is important.
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There was a Russian cult of eunuchs known as the Skoptsy who were renowned for their proficiency as mathematicians, bankers, and moneylenders. Outsiders called them rapacious but this was simply their jealousy speaking - when one is freed from sexual desire, or sexual desire is transmuted into work, suddenly the world becomes engorged with possibilities.
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A film is not something that can be made over the phone or Skype. Creative people meet, spend time together, and then come up with something.
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But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.
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Shaw presumes that his friend Stalin has everything under control. Well, Stalin may have made special arrangements to see that Shaw comes to no harm, but the rest of us in Western Europe do not feel quite so sure of our fate, especially those of us who do not share Shaw's curious admiration for dictators.
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You can't worry about things you have no control over.
