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'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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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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I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.
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YouTube is a problem. It has very big traffic, but it refuses to contribute to the weight of that traffic.
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My approach to the job can be summed up pretty simply - I never viewed politics as my career. Important, yes, worthy of intense commitment, of course - but it was not my whole life. … I saw politics as a way to make a contribution and satisfy my penchant for public policy, but not as something I couldn't live without.
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Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.
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I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.
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I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.
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It was the success of 'Bend it Like Beckham' which got my name out there. 'A Mighty Heart' also helped.
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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.
