Nicholas Thorburn Quotes
I'll acknowledge that I'm from Canada but I don't think I'll acknowledge that I'm Canadian.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.
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Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.
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It's not really cool to be singled out.
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We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.
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Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage.
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I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.
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We were obviously concerned after the game, but he has very little swelling, and our guys feel encouraged.
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I'm no stranger to weight issues. I've had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times.
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Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.
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Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.
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I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.
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Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.
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My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.
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Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.
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I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.
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As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
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If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.
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The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.
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Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.
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I'll acknowledge that I'm from Canada but I don't think I'll acknowledge that I'm Canadian.
