Nelson Searcy Quotes
Perspective is everything. If your “why” is big enough, you can deal with almost any “what.
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I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.
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I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.
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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
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Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
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Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.
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If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.
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Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.
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The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
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It is easy to react if everything is going great.
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People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
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Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.
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And now we're apart and you're just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn't make sense.
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America is our continent. You feel in the daily language that Americans use the word "America" to erase the rest of the continent from the map. And, of course, the language is clearly a reflection of the geopolitical reality: the domination of the United States over the rest of the continent.
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I always call myself the luckiest actor in the world because I made a living solely as a performer from the time I left home at 17 years old.
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Perspective is everything. If your “why” is big enough, you can deal with almost any “what.
