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.

Nick Thune

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• We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Problem
  • Tough
  • Congratulations

• If I couldn't see the colors, now that would be a problem.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Problem
  • See
  • Colors

• 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.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Long
  • Career
  • Dance

• The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Problem
  • Sad

• 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.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Real
  • Career
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Halsey
  • Career
  • Small
  • City

• Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Speak
  • Walls

• Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Career
  • Strong
  • Obstacles

• I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Today
  • Career
  • Hate

• It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • Problem
  • Same
  • Formula One

• Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• There have been a lot of moments in my career when things haven't gone to plan.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Career
  • Moments
  • Plan

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Ambition

• I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Career
  • Athlete
  • Own

• At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • American
  • Career
  • Style

• If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Man

• Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Character
  • Confidence
  • Speak

• Global warming is my personal experience.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Experience
  • Global Warming

• If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

  

  Jacques Yves Cousteau
  • Greed

• With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross' solo stuff. I just loved it.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Grandparents

• I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

  

  Eamonn Walker
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Nick Thune
  • Career
  • Problem
  • Speak