Adam Nicolson Quotes
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.
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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
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One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.
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We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.'
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The battle sunk towards the horizon. Presently it would be gone, leaving a sky unsullied by human affairs.
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L.A. was never me. Nashville is my home.
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Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.
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My family believes in a good script and ultimately everything that is attached to it. I am more interested in a hit film than a good film.
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If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.
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People look at me like I'm a little strange, when I go around talking to squirrels and rabbits and stuff. That's ok. That's just ok.
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I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.
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I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
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The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.