Nigel Rees Quotes
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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I think we have still to get to a place where we feel satisfied. We have this saying - 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king'. We are a little bit that way.
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If there is a true secret to the universe, it is this...these first few seconds of warmth and entry and complete acceptance by one’s beloved.
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You will find that there is no other difference of opinion as regards any portions of the Universe, except that the philosophers believe in the Eternity of the Universe and we believe in the Creation. Note this.
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Happiness, satisfaction, and success in life depend on making the right choices, the winning choices. There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.
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One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another, so I said. . . But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
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It doesn't mean much;It doesn't mean anything at all.The life I've left behind meIs a cold room.I've crossed the last lineFrom where I can't return.Where every step I took in faithBetrayed meAnd led me from my home.And sweet sweet surrenderIs all that I have to give.
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It's time that Americans dealt seriously with guns, getting in place strong and appropriate measures - there is no excuse for anything but the strictest controls.
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The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada.
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I'm drawn to the unconventional because I've been drawn unconventionally. I believe that I'm supposed to topple over these false images of what's idealistically beautiful. Because, of course, these intangible qualities are very attractive to women. Sincerity. Sense of humor. Success.
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As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.
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You could do a 'Les Mis'-type musical about Hamilton, but it would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of words on the bars when you're writing a typical song - that's maybe got 10 words per line.
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You're aging when your actions creak louder than your words.
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Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
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When I became a mother, my life completely changed.
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You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.
