Nicholas Andrea Dandolos (Nick the Greek) Quotes

The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.

Nicholas Andrea Dandolos

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• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Song
  • Community

• The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Attention
  • College

• Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Truth
  • Very
  • Tell

• I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • School
  • Education

• Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Book
  • Always
  • Nose

• No one man is superior to the game.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Game
  • Man
  • Superior

• The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • Daily
  • Greatest

• Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Idea
  • Find
  • Wealth

• My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Great
  • Family
  • She

• I love Peter Gabriel, and I've come so close to working with him a few times. We were on a movie soundtrack together, but we didn't actually write together.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Together
  • Movie

• Black girls, I feel, rock, in so many ways, especially coming from five girls.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Black
  • Rock

• There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.

  

  Bernard Hill
  • Parents
  • Childhood
  • Poverty

• Mr. Trump fights back. He doesn't fight back with one retort. He continuously reminds people.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • People
  • Trump

• Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

  

  Chester A. Arthur
  • Men
  • May
  • Free

• A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

  

  Jay McInerney
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• I find that the 'moms club' is a very, very exclusive club! It's the club of mothers who wear skinny jeans and white button-down shirts and wash their hair twice a day! I do not, and mothers who do make me feel really bad. You know who I am talking about!

  

  Marissa Jaret Winokur
  • Bad
  • Hair

• We have a lot to learn from everyone.

  

  Adrian Grenier

• I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • Done
  • History
  • Past

• Melinda Gates is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Melinda Gates

• In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure... and forget that there is a difference.

  

  Udny Yule
  • Wish
  • Lust

• Never give up, no, never give up If you're looking for something easy You might as well give it up.

  

  Cat Power
  • Giving
  • Easy
  • Might

• We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • People
  • May
  • Power

• The most important thing to me is winning tournaments. I love winning.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Winning
  • Tournaments

• The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.

  

  Nicholas Andrea Dandolos
  • Winning
  • Losing
  • Gambling