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

• I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Think
  • Career
  • Run

• You never help anyone by being a sounding board for their problems or complaints.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Problem
  • Boards
  • Complaints

• Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Fear

• I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Reading

• My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Music
  • Inspire
  • Define

• 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