Nick Gordon Quotes
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I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?
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There has been a lot of suspicious, maybe hazing, deaths in the last couple of years-in the last five or six years.
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Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like [Mahatma] Gandhi and setting him on a stage requires thinking about what theater is about and what the whole experience is about and what we're trying to communicate in that way, so you get into certain less abstract considerations.
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The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.
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Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength.
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Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.
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No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.
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Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.
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If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.
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It's lovely to have a part that requires you to learn something that's also interesting.
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A new future requires a new past.
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And one of the rules of good civil society I believe is that you’re respectful of the people who disagree with you. And that's part of what makes civil society work. If you can have civil disagreements, and you can listen to each other and not just shout, that's what creates an environment that leads to progress over the long term.
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After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I mended them. I retired from the world in order to try to comprehend it and to find out why it becomes more unsavoury as the years accumulate on a man's body. What do you think I discovered at the end of my meditations?" I felt pleased again. He was now questioning me. "What?" "That No is a better word than Yes," he replied.
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A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.
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Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion.
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Great leaders focus on equipping their team. It is unfair to expect what you did not equip.
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Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.
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The greatest threat of all to their identity, and to the very idea of a nomadic hunter in North America, appeared on the plains in the late 1860s. These were the buffalo men. Between 1868 and 1881 they would kill thirty-one million buffalo, stripping the plains almost entirely of the huge, lumbering creatures and destroying any last small hope that any horse tribe could ever be restored to its traditional life. There was no such thing as a horse Indian without a buffalo herd. Such an Indian had no identity at all.
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To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
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Love of life at times requires death
