Nelson Searcy Quotes
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.
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You always learn something from mistakes.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'
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African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
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I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.
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I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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I always loved those early Elton John albums. I sort of keep going back there,
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Again, mercy is literally love in action.
