Nigel Rees Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you're solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion
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People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
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Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.
