Nicky Oppenheimer Quotes
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.
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Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
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I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.
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I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.
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All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.
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I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.
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When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.
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Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.
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The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.
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Often by the time writers and producers try to get a new hit song, the industry has already moved on. Whatever you're creating might not be as hot as it would have been during the time of your first hit. It definitely compromises the creative process when the music is changing and evolving so fast. If you're not on top of it, you will be forgotten.
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I had this feeling everybody thought I was dead. I didn't quit. I did some films and theater in London. I went to New York. But I had been on television so much, people thought [if I wasn't on television] I wasn't around.
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An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
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Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.
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History of the New York Times, 1851-1921. Contributors: Elmer Davis - author. Publisher: New York Times.
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Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.
