Adam Nicolson Quotes
A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
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All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
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If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
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Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State; and it is for the individual in so far as he coincides with the State . . . . It is opposed to classical Liberalism . . . . Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.
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I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.
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Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
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The low-ceiling price bazaar for sexual relief was a street called Middie Alley. You could barely get a pushcart through this avenue. Top price-twenty-five cents.
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I was frightened. I hadn't really had any experience, and then all of a sudden I was thrown straight into doing interviews. Most people have build-up. I had none.
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When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.
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You know you're hearing from God when you don't walk away with facts but you walk away with faith.
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A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.
