Steven Amsterdam Quotes
Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
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Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
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I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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I love putting people to work of color.
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I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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Prince was my first crush, and my first love, but we didn't start to get serious until I turned 18. He was very respectful.
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I haven't had vast amounts of ministerial experience - in fact, none at all. But I do have a lot of experience of people.
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When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.
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Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.
