Nicholas Thorburn Quotes
You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever.
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I never allow myself to be pressured.
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I don't write about my life in my column.
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Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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Our message of the day is service does not need a title.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
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Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.
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There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
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Gigi is my perfect partner. She's my best friend. She's the most fun of anyone I know, and she's also the kindest and most tolerant person.
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The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.
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Every love song I write is for Linda.
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Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
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Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.
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Once when I was lost I asked a policeman to help me find my parents. I said to him, 'Do you think we'll ever find them?' He answered, 'I don't know, kid. There are so many places they can hide.
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Once I reached my 40s, I thought to myself that if I'm going to play live now, I need to really mean this. I can't go out and be a little bit, for one moment slovenly in my choices as a performer. I mean, these people have paid a lot of money to be here, they've been through the nightmare of getting here, starving themselves waiting for us to get on stage, so I'm going to give them what they came here for.
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I call myself a radical conservative. What's that? Well, let's analyze it. Go to the dictionary. Radical: One who gets to the roots of things. And I'm a conservative because I want to conserve the green of the grass, the potability of drinking water, the first amendment of the Constitution and whatever sanity we have left.
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The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.
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You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever.
