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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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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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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Tum pater omnipotens misso perfregit Olympumfulmine et excussit subiectae Pelion Ossae.
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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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The fundamental values of a true community are elsewhere: in love, poetry, disinterested thought, the free use of the imagination, the pursuit of non-utilitarian activities, the production of non-profitmaking goods, the employment of non-consumable wealth - here are the sustaining values of a living culture.
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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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Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.
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The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion.
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Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.
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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.
