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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.
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I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.
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In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.
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Rock is much more malleable than ideas.
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I had wanted to write 'The Possessed' as fiction, but everyone told me that no one would read a novel about graduate students. It seems almost uncivilized to tell someone writing a novel, 'No, you have to call this a memoir.'
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Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.
