Nigel Rees Quotes
I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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No man fails who does his best.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.
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The dearest things I know are what you are.
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A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.
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I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?
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I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.
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It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.
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That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.
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Kevin Durant would be welcome back in Oklahoma any time he's willing to come, and I want to be the first one he calls. He took care of the victims of our tornadoes. He took care of families. Took care of little kids. So, he has a heart, and he's not a bad ballplayer.
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I loved Charles Addams more than anything. Still love him.
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It's obvious that Pemex doesn't have the financial capacity to be in every single front of energy generation.
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I'm a big believer in the transformative, exponential power of art, like a reverse pyramid scheme.
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I just believe strongly that anybody who wants to pursue additional education after high school ought to be given that chance.
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Once again, the facts have been erased.
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One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.
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I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.
