Nigel S. Wright Quotes
Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
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I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea.
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Senator Clinton is very knowledgeable about national security and is probably going to be strong on defense. I have no doubts whatsoever that if she were president in January '09, she would not act irresponsibly and issue orders to conduct an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, regardless of the consequences, and squander the gains that have been made.
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Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet - whom Plato banned from his Republic - may rise up to save us all.
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Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can't wait.
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The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
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I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.
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If you really spend time with movies, it's three years of your life from beginning to end. I started out planting the seed with 'Monster's Ball' about independent cinema and raising money and that whole thing as a producer, and then it becomes easier for me.
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It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.
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Until you become a woman you don't know the things that come with being a woman.
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The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.
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The fact that people put on 'Honey, I'm Good' to get their day started - that's really sweet.
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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
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I've got quite an old-fashioned figure. Back in the Sixties, girls had boobs, a tummy and wide hips, and bigger thighs as well. I think that's sexy - to me, that's what a woman looks like. I've got love handles - sometimes they're passion handles! I'm built for comfort, not for speed, and I like that about myself.
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Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.
