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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Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
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I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was just sort of assumed like an awful lot of things in the 1950's were just sort of taken for granted.
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I’d say I was doing a great job submitting to God by submitting to my desires. Who do you think gave me desire in the first place?
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I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.
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How often we say about our earthly friends, I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can really get to know them. And shouldn't we feel the same about our Heavenly Friend, that we may really get to know Him? These thoughts have taught me the importance of the children of God taking time to commune daily with their Father, so that they may get to know His mind and to understand better what His will is.
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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.
