Nick Willing Quotes
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.
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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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I believe in music.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.
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These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
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I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.
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Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.
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I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.
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I'm a good friend.
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I don't think I make decisions as an actor based on what I think the fans will or will not want at this point.
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Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn't about, and I don't mean writing style, but cultural style.
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It took Francis Galton several years to figure out that correlation and regression are not two concepts – they are different perspectives on the same concept. The general rule is straightforward but has surprising consequences: whenever the correlation between two scores is imperfect, there will be regression to the mean.
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To change an opinion without a mental process is the mark of the uneducated.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.
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My sister discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I'm four years younger. So we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia. Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album.
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Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.
Nick Willing
