Nelson Shanks (John Nelson Shanks) Quotes
It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.
Nelson Shanks
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
Nancy Reagan
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
Tamara Ecclestone
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When you get into a car, and there's trash, or it's dirty, or one of the hubcaps is off, you're like, 'Come on, dude.' Every woman likes the confidence and self-respect that says, 'I get oil changes. I look after my vehicle.' That's what I recommend: Act like you don't care, but take care of your body.
T. J. Miller
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
Jack Kornfield
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
Daniel Ek
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We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.
Rachel Kushner
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
Samantha Power
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I leave Bud Fox in the canyons of Wall Street, just another ant, one of millions of ants…. We’re all absorbed in this system of capitalism…. You join the collective unconscious.
Oliver Stone
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But there is a Pope in the breast of each of us whom is hard to silence. Long ago a lady said to me, when I asked her the composers she liked: 'Dvorak.' I said before I could stop myself: 'Dvorak!' How many times, and with what shame, I’ve remembered it. And now I like Dvorak...
Randall Jarrell
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Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.
Hillary Clinton
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I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.
Pierre Dukan
