Nicholas Young Quotes
I'm incredibly grateful for the time I spent with STOMP and even more so for the skills and awareness I developed as a performer during that time.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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I just want to have a nice, happy life.
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I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.
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Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.
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On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.
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When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.
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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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I am extremely lucky, and I enjoy the level of work that I am able to work at.
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A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians
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I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
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I read my eyes out and can't read half enough. … The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
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Can you imagine your second album - the difficult second album - it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, 'It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.
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Remember what John Adams said about Ben Franklin, 'He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures but rather seems to think us too irresolute.' Well, this is the time for bold measures.
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I'm not obsessed with the rights of women; it can be a bit excessive. I want to put men and women on an equal footing. I think we are equal but different.
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Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.
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I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.
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You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.
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I'm incredibly grateful for the time I spent with STOMP and even more so for the skills and awareness I developed as a performer during that time.
