Nick Thune Quotes

I don't want to follow comedians because I don't want to see what they're thinking about, 'cause then maybe I won't stumble across a thought maybe I had about the same subject.

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• I fight because I like challenges.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Like
  • Fight
  • Challenges

• I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.

  

  N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
  • Way
  • Like
  • Shadow

• I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Before

• When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • You
  • Always
  • Young

• She was too alert, too alive not to have the kind of mind that probed and reached and got her into trouble now and then.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Mind
  • She

• I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have my very own school - no way. And I had no idea I'd be coaching girls. It's wild.

  

  Liang Chow
  • School
  • Coaching

• I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.

  

  Marian Seldes
  • Career
  • Single

• I loved being on the field playing and teaching softball. I didn't like the fact that a camp had my name on it and I didn't know the logistics of what was going on. I wanted to make sure I was involved in a camp that did things right.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Softball

• Biggest lesson I learned my first year in the NFL is no one gives a crap about what you did last week. This league is about what have you done for me now. That's the NFL. It's also our culture. So you keep working hard because that's the biggest truth about football.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Culture

• I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Design

• Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.

  

  Margaret Spellings

• If there are a couple of adjectives people use to describe me, anger is usually in there. I've never taken that as criticism. It's the way I naturally communicate. But I'm not faux-angry, like Lewis Black, or angry like a gun-toting crazy person. I'm just angry in a mild way - it's not like I'm going to do anything about it.

  

  David Cross
  • People
  • Black
  • Crazy

• I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• I left 'Containment' for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after they've done a really demanding emotional and physical project. I wanted a break, to be honest with you, and I needed to recover.

  

  Chris Wood
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• One congressman asked 'I just want to know if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior. The minister looked stunned, and he said 'no.' The whole table almost fell on the floor. The congressman was quite serious. That was his litmus test.

  

  Jim Sasser
  • Jesus
  • Serious

• Cerner's focus over the last 20 years has been to provide healthcare, predominately healthcare providers, with advanced clinical and management information systems. Our mission is to connect the appropriate persons, knowledge, and resources at the appropriate time and location to achieve the optimal health outcome.

  

  Neal Patterson
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Health

• Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

  

  George C. Marshall
  • Serious

• Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Decision

• In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • America
  • Rap
  • Innocent

• Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• I like to go after the foibles, basically of beliefs that are held without question. If people still want to believe in their stuff after that, that's great - as long as they just have a chance to step back and look at it for a second. Sometimes, you don't even realize what you've been thinking for 20 years.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go back to university and get a law degree?' I kind of looked around me and thought, 'What kind of idiot am I that I've just spent the last 10 years writing novels? Financially, I'm pretty much where I was when I was 28.'

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I don't want to follow comedians because I don't want to see what they're thinking about, 'cause then maybe I won't stumble across a thought maybe I had about the same subject.

  

  Nick Thune
  • Thinking
  • Subject
  • Comedians