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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Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.
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It is sad to see a young man's fondest hopes and dreams shattered when the rose-colured veil is plucked away and he sees the actions and feelings of men for what they are. But he still has the hope of replacing his old illusions with others, just as fleeting, but also just as sweet.
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I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?'
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It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
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I love any event in the United States because I treat it like it's my home, my house. And I'm going to protect it.
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Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.
