Nikki Reed (Nicole Houston Reed) Quotes
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.
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Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
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I miss 'EastEnders.' I loved it. But I was exhausted when I left. They asked me to go back recently - they've asked a few times. I am tempted! But my husband Scott says you have to really think about it. Because, towards the end, I was so exhausted and not sleeping at night. I'm not quite ready for it.
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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
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I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
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I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.
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I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.
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Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.
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Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own; do not treat people as objects to be exploited].
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It sounded like walls tumbling, liberty bells chiming, government buildings being stormed. It sounded like a revolution. It sounded like hope.
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We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.
