Nick Baylis Quotes
It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.
Quotes to Explore
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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I do not cook.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.
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The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.
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Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.
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Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!
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The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.
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Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
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One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend.
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I have been constantly shaping and reshaping my career. I laid a foundation by doing respectful work in all media. And I am happy with what I have done.
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Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.
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While one can't always begrudge the wealth of people who have at least produced something of value, the rich of the financial world don't make anything but more money. They're not creative, aside from, perhaps, in accounting.
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Repression is the enemy of civilization - so keep dreaming, because the dreams we dream today will provide the love, the compassion, and the humanity that will narrate the stories of our lives tomorrow.
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I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.
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Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
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Dad has worked as a banker at the same firm in Boston, living in the same suburban neighborhood for over 50 years. Later in life, when I got out of graduate school and imagined myself living the life of a writer like Hemingway or Kerouac, his practical self inevitably encouraged me to get a steady a job and raise a family, just like he did.
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There's every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever.
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It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.
