Nick Grimshaw Quotes
My actual friends and family: by the time I get home, I don’t want to talk to anyone I don’t know.
Quotes to Explore
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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Too clever is dumb.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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What I do is I do my job.
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If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
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I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.
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I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.
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In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
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If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
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Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'
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Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.
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My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
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Once you start getting into giving back, it gets addictive.
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My actual friends and family: by the time I get home, I don’t want to talk to anyone I don’t know.
