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 love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about... being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I'd like to do more well-written indies. I don't know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it's somewhere within that realm.
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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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We in El Paso and Juarez are literally one community. There's no separation; there's no DMZ; there's no buffer.
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What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'
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Only God can stop Kobe Bryant.
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Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.
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I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.
