Nicholas A. Basbanes Quotes
With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
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I look formidable.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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I like heels and make-up.
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When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.
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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
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It's cool that I'm 20 and am on the cover of the video game. A lot of kids play hockey, and a few get drafted, and only a few get to be on the cover. It's a great feeling.
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A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
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I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.
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I will simply call attention to the fact that it is an ideal utterly inconsistent with that of those Communists who falsely call themselves Anarchists while at the same time advocating a regime of Archism fully as despotic as that of the State Socialists themselves.
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'Biodiesel seems to be the answer to a lot of our prayers. Not only can it help the U.S. economy, our unwanted dependence on foreign oil, and the gasping environment, it could also help the family farmers out of this tragic dilemma they have found themselves in through no fault of their own.'
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Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.
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When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.
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I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
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Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.
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Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.
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Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
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Hobbies are for wimps who don’t have the guts to follow their passion.
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I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.
