Nathanael Emmons Quotes
It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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I lived in a neighborhood where there weren't many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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As a franchise, we don't have any different expectations than anyone else.
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I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.
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The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much more problematic than I thought it would be.
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My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together.
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There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.
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I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.
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I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.
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It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.
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I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.
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Creation is everything you do. Make something.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.
