Nathanael Emmons Quotes
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I love anything to do with history.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.
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The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.
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You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
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While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.
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You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
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I believe easel painting to be a dying form, and the tendency of modern feeling is toward the wall picture or mural..
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Though the most be players, some must be spectators.
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After the 'Golden Compass,' I wasn't sure if I'd ever get another acting job.
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I was never a singer; I can't play any instruments; I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn't have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.
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'Eleanor' was so much fun to write, because there's a brutal honesty about her. She's got no filters and no concept of social norms.
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Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
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It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
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My scope on what's good is if I like it. The first person I have to please is myself.
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Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.
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I'm really compulsive with music. I listen too much, and I can't listen to one thing. I love iTunes Genius.
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The worst losses come at night.
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Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.
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My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.
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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
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Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.
