Nigel Short (Nigel David Short) Quotes
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
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'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most - a respected, credible, morally strong America.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.
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I know not whether Laws be right,Or whether Laws be wrong;All that we know who lie in gaolIs that the wall is strong;And that each day is like a year,A year whose days are long.
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Fascism recognizes the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which divergent interests are coordinated and harmonized in the unity of the State.
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America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.
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When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it's meant to distract and destroy.
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No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.
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Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.
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I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.
