Nicholas Andrea Dandolos (Nick the Greek) Quotes
Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.
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Though I probably shouldn't admit this, the activities and pursuits in which I've achieved any measure of success are, without exception, activities and pursuits that came easily to me from the beginning.
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The White House is such an extraordinary, simple, beautiful place. It's an extraordinary piece of our history, because it is the one thing that binds our country together. We don't have a king obviously, but we have this president, and the fact that almost all of them have lived in the same place, and so much history took place in those rooms. You can't help but feel awe-inspired by being there.
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I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?
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Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.
