Nick Gordon Quotes
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
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I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.
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We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
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Just moments ago, I spoke with George W. Bush and congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the United States. And I promised him that I wouldn't call him back this time. I offered to meet with him as soon as possible so that we can start to heal the divisions of the campaign and the contest through which we've just passed.
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I love oddballs and nerdiness, and it's a fun world to write in.
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Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.
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I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!
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These kids today, everything is about hitting a vocal home run.
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
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I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.
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The London I entered was a great bustling metropolitan city at war, an imperial power fighting to hold on to that empire. And the teeming colonial subjects of that empire did not, on the whole, want England to lose that war, but they also did not want the empire to emerge unchanged from it. This, for very many of us, was the hard dilemma.
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You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating.
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Only night can make us whole again.
