Nick Baker (Nicholas Rowan Baker) Quotes

The one thing worse than accepting environmental damage is a lack of optimism for the future.

Nick Baker

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• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Money
  • Poverty
  • Breeds

• Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Good
  • Short

• My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Start

• I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Man
  • Girl
  • Door

• Fashion anticipates.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Fashion

• I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.

  

  Larry David
  • Walking
  • Dying
  • Talking

• There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Christian
  • Logic

• Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Death
  • Become
  • Destroyer

• The constant in all the businesses I've become a part of is taking what I do and making it real for everyone. I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Reality

• We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Live
  • Religion
  • Meditation

• It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Real
  • Working
  • Honest

• It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Important
  • Very
  • Outside

• People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Content

• You know the affection I have always had for you Boudin and also the gratitude. I have never forgotten that you were the first who taught me to see and to comprehend.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Gratitude

• Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• 'They’re just ordinary people,' Nancy said. 'You can’t expect too much of them.'

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • People

• Perché il bisogno a dispogliar gli altarira' l'uom talvolta, che sel trova avere.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• I love 'Jaws,' and I think Robert Shaw's performance in 'Jaws' is one of the best screen performances of all time. I am a massive Robert Shaw fan. I think he's a brilliant, brilliant talent and we lost him way before his time.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Time
  • Lost

• We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

  

  Conor McPherson
  • Why
  • Universe

• I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Taste

• The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet.

  

  Zalmay Khalilzad
  • People
  • Together
  • Happy

• Never try directly to diminish or minimize something which is important to another person. By making a direct challenge to a crucial criterion you are more likely to strengthen it than to diminish it. Your best strategy is to begin by accepting.

  

  Neil Rackham
  • Challenge
  • Accepting
  • Strategy

• The one thing worse than accepting environmental damage is a lack of optimism for the future.

  

  Nick Baker
  • Future
  • Optimism
  • Damage