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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I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.
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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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I always think that friends and family are off-bounds. I went into politics; they didn't.
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What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and are the quickest and most interesting way of reminding us that our streets exist above and beyond the here-and-now.
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What would happen if you melted? You know, you never really hear this talked about much, but spontaneous combustion? It exists!... [people] burn from within... sometimes they'll be in a wooden chair and the chair won't burn, but there'll be nothing left of the person. Except sometimes his teeth. Or the heart. No one speaks about this, but its for real.
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Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.
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If the light is right, you can squint at the Taj and see the specter of its black twin on the other side of the Yamuna - and it is then that you truly marvel not just at the Taj, but at the wonder of what might have been.
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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.
