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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.'
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I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.
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People use us for their weddings, their university convocations - you become a part of culture. That's a big part of people's lives, and it's actually a really big honor for us. All their memories around that process are stored in Paperless Post.
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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.
