Nick Diaz (Nickolas Robert "Nick" Diaz) Quotes
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
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I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.
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Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'
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When I play, I make love – it is the same thing.
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When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person's sensibility. It's an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it's intuitive.
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I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and struggle outside the academy.
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In order to love fighting, I have to hate it.
