Nick Drake Quotes

Time has told me not to ask for more, someday our ocean will find its shore.

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• In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.

  

  Edmund White
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• I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
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  • Keep Going

• I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.

  

  Sam Kinison
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• When I travel overseas on many occasions, I get pulled out because I may be buying a one-way ticket, I may be traveling with my sister and we have different last names. That's smart profiling. Just pulling people out one at a time when we have millions of passengers in random screenings I'm not sure is the best way to do it.

  

  Aaron Schock
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• I've met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent so much time with him. He taught me discipline, which I hadn't been taught properly before. If I was, like, two seconds, late, he would kick off. Once, I was three minutes late, and he went absolutely berserk.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Time
  • Interesting

• In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
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• By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
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  • Sometimes

• Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• Every time I get on an airplane I have a routine. I cover the inside of my nostrils with anti-bacterial ointment. I'm popping Zicam like it's candy. And I drink, literally, from L.A. to New York, six bottles of water.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Time
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  • New

• You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
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• I'm just not very good at being happy all the time.

  

  Charli XCX
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• I made video art for quite a long time, and I made this video covering myself in burgers and dancing to Major Lazer and doing covers of Britney Spears songs... I can't remember how I got there, but my teacher said he'd have to fail me because it had mild nudity.

  

  Charli XCX
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• From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students. I decided that, rather than waste the last day of class summarizing the semester, I'd spend my time talking about what I'd learned in life that was useful.

  

  Clayton Christensen
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• I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • Time
  • Work
  • Inspired

• I'm a big hit at parties. Friends ask me to sing B-I-N-G-O all the time. I'm thinking, you know, of maybe putting out a Christmas album or something.

  

  Paula Pell
  • Time
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• The clubs are good fun-having a laugh, really having a good time.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
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  • Fun

• When I throw a softball, there's no time to think about the motion of my arm. I just look at the first baseman's glove and react.

  

  Keegan Bradley
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  • Softball

• Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

  

  James Humes
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  • Leadership

• Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.

  

  Preet Bharara
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• For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
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• Regardless of how long it took or what I had to go through to get there, I had visualizations of throwing no-hitters or throwing shutouts.

  

  Jake Arrieta
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• Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Men
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• Time has told me not to ask for more, someday our ocean will find its shore.

  

  Nick Drake
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  • Ask