Nikki Grimes Quotes
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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In terms of television, 'Maverick' and 'Have Gun - Will Travel.' But filmically, classics like 'High Noon' and 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' - that's one of my favorite films.
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.
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You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.
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Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new respect for humanity. And I believe that it's also helped me to grow as a person. It's been one of the biggest blessings and expressions that I could have ever been gifted with.
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I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
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If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
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The fact is that you are more comfortable with myth than man.
