Nick Thune Quotes
I see times in my life and career where I was part of the problem whether I was unaware or too scared to speak up. I want to help make it better.
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We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'
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If I couldn't see the colors, now that would be a problem.
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I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.
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The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
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I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.
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In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
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I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.
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Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.
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I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.
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It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.
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Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
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There have been a lot of moments in my career when things haven't gone to plan.
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
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I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.
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He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.
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My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.
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It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of the people of this world. These 80 percent live on the biodiversity and the knowledge they have evolved as part of a rich collective heritage involving the use of seeds for growing crops and medicinal plants for healing.
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Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.
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I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way.
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The England I write about doesn't strike me as the real one.
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I see times in my life and career where I was part of the problem whether I was unaware or too scared to speak up. I want to help make it better.
