Nathanael Emmons Quotes

These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.

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• I have faith in the jury system.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Faith
  • System
  • Jury

• It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Great
  • Important
  • Rules

• There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Rules

• When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Song
  • Hand
  • Teacher

• Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Democracy
  • Rules
  • Key

• I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Me
  • Say
  • Sushi

• If I was involved with the NFL, I'd seriously consider adopting some of the rules used in Canada. I've heard, unofficially, of course, some NFL club owners have talked about adding a feature or two. The NFL went for the two-point conversion. Professional sport is entertainment, and the CFL, I believe, is ahead of the NFL in that regard.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Believe
  • Professional
  • Rules

• That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Up
  • Important
  • Rules

• I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Life
  • Different
  • Always

• I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Long
  • High
  • Age

• The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Ideas
  • Rules
  • Decisions

• I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • People
  • Model
  • inspirational

• My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • People
  • Me
  • Say

• There are no rules to writing a song.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Rules

• They can say I have an opinion about something.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • Opinion
  • Something
  • Say

• There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writing
  • Rules
  • Three

• I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Beautiful
  • Say
  • Watch

• I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Think
  • Say
  • Fair

• Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Point
  • Gifts
  • Shock

• I'm gonna say this and I really mean it - I'm very thankful that I'm not a huge star. I've all the stardom and celebrity that I can handle. But I also have peace and quiet. I am left alone. And I am not recognized everywhere I go and it's perfect. I can come and fill the theatres and I get on stage ... people say: "Well, oh yeah, that must be him," you know?

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Peace
  • Perfect

• When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Years
  • Said
  • Opinions

• It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Art

• I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.

  

  Katy Butler
  • Break
  • Longevity
  • Taboo

• These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.

  

  Nathanael Emmons
  • Say
  • Rules
  • System