Nick Bilton Quotes
Most people go through life thinking that tomorrow they’re going to do something great. Tomorrow will be the day that they wake up and discover what they were put on this earth to do. But then tomorrow comes—and goes. As does the next day. Before long, they realize that there aren’t that many tomorrows left.
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The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
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By necessity, budgets require hard choices.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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The gimmicky thing I'm not very keen on.
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I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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When I was a kid, I loved 'Little Women.'
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They took away time, and they gave us the clock.
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Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
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How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?
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Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.
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Rather than exist each day in some dull, boring habitual manner, move into action on a big idea. Everyone is on the brink of possibility. Your responsibility is to discover what that possibility is for you. Ideas can turn you on, they can wind you up. The right idea can and will add a new dimension to your life.
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The greatest thing a man can do for himself is to marry someone who is infinitely better than he is. And that's exactly what I did.
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Most people go through life thinking that tomorrow they’re going to do something great. Tomorrow will be the day that they wake up and discover what they were put on this earth to do. But then tomorrow comes—and goes. As does the next day. Before long, they realize that there aren’t that many tomorrows left.
