Nick Minchin Quotes
Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
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Inside every anarchist is a failed dictator.
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I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do.
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University of California students can look forward to the same authoritarian management style Secretary Napolitano brought to the Department of Homeland Security, hardly a bastion of free speech and open government.
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What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.
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We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.
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It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle.
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Prince Philippe is well prepared to succeed me.
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The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
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During the Cold War era, the issue was the containment of Soviet influence, and we tolerated many an authoritarian regime as long as they were useful to us in this respect.
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Writing 'Fast Life' has been an incredible experience. It's something totally different from what I am used to.
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The law of all modern states takes account of associations, whose members, in theory, pursue the common end with equal zeal. The experience of all associations proves, however, that this is not the case, and that a lively, constant and vigorous awareness of the end is found only in a minority of the associates; an association is really rather like a comet—a large tail of docile followers dragged along by a small dynamic head.
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I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems.
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The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
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Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion.
