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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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'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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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'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 people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.
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Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for.
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I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.
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If you really think about the fabric of the United States, or the finance of any economy, finance is a true underpinning of what makes the economy great - if it can be done successfully, responsibly, and with a client orientation.
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You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.
