Nick Burd Quotes

Distance is meaningless. No one's that far away unless they choose to be.

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• All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers me to assist other veterans. It allows me to be physically active, have my pilot's license, and serve in Congress.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Helping
  • Obstacles
  • Warrior

• The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'

  

  Xavier Niel
  • You
  • Question
  • Internet

• I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Music
  • Power

• I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Acting
  • Theater

• I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • School
  • Never
  • English

• I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Never

• On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Values
  • Listen
  • Talk

• I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Art
  • Today
  • Culture

• Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Mean
  • Show
  • Just Because

• You're going to start seeing open-source, self-executing contracts gradually improve over time. What the Internet did to publishing, blockchain will do to about 160 different industries. It's crazy.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Time
  • Different
  • Crazy

• But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Game
  • Finding
  • Literary

• The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • World
  • Why
  • Day

• Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Up
  • Family
  • Pretty

• Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • World
  • History
  • Past

• Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally were unbelievable to work with in 'How to Succeed.'

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Work
  • Succeed
  • Unbelievable

• But do you know what struck me, apart from Nancy’s vibrant self-pity, which she had the nerve to pretend was grief?

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • She
  • Grief

• There's a lot of guys who are drafted and end up not playing in the NBA. They get their money for their first whatever years and end up going overseas or something like that.

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • Up
  • Money

• The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • May
  • Church

• I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

  

  Alice Sebold
  • Ignorance
  • Distance

• New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.

  

  Don Kardong
  • Challenge
  • Journey
  • Distance

• Distance is meaningless. No one's that far away unless they choose to be.

  

  Nick Burd
  • Distance
  • Far
  • Meaningless