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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Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
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Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.
