Nigel Rees Quotes
My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations.
Quotes to Explore
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An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
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If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.
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When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.
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I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like 'Pete and Pete,' 'Hey, Dude,' 'Salute Your Shorts' - that's what I grew up with.
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Every free day, every weekend, I am in a recording session. I'm very lucky to have such supportive people around me.
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I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
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The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
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Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.
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Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.
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It's nice to know that people are paying attention to you on the other side of the ball, but it's also kind of sad because you feel like you're a man that's being hunted down by some vicious animal. I feel they're going to come after me and do whatever they can to shut down the run, and that makes a difference with me in going out and doing my job.
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We know from Talmadge Hayer, one of the men who carried out the assassination, who was shot by Ruben X as he tried to flee the Audubon after shooting Malcolm X, we know that Hayer confessed years later to his Imam in prison that there had been a walk-through a week prior to February 21st [1965] at the Audubon Ballroom.
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libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands
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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
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We're only human, we're supposed to make mistakes.
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A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb.
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Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.
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For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.
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I choose to ignore hell in my life. When I was a little kid I asked my Dad "Am I going to go to hell?" because I'd heard about hell. And he said, "Nothing you're gonna do will get you into hell." And so I got to ignore it.
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I am deeply concerned that Sri Lanka, despite the opportunity provided by the end of the war to construct a new vibrant, all-embracing state, is showing signs of heading in an increasingly authoritarian direction.
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There is much less drinking now than there was before 1927, because I quit drinking on May 24, 1927.
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My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations.
