Nicholas Nixon Quotes
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
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I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.
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You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
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In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
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I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.
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This is the only thing I know.
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There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college and being on the Olympic platform getting a gold medal. Visiting the Hall of Fame and going into the Hall of Fame.
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Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
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I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
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I'm from Minnesota. I like to be barefoot, running through the woods.
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Net Neutrality - a guiding principle of the Internet since its beginning - means that content is all treated equally.
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If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at the first possible moment, otherwise they corrupt us, they create new problems and make our future even more uncertain. That is more than morality; it's sense.
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The world is infinitely more interesting than any of my opinions about it.
