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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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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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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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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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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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.
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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
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When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously. I take it no less seriously than the band I was in for 15 years; it's just a new place that I'm in. I'm in the Gutter Twins right now and that's what I am. But if I'm a Twilight Singer next year, it will be with no less passion.
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I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.
