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.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Money
  • Today

• 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.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • You
  • Sometimes

• 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.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Proud
  • Military
  • Thought

• Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Violence
  • Another

• Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Like
  • Silence
  • Word

• 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.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Persistence

• I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Love
  • Never

• I believe in music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Thought
  • Expression

• 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.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Country
  • Father
  • Poverty

• 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.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Mind
  • May
  • Knowledge

• I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • Work
  • Heart

• Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Good
  • Want
  • Values

• I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Children
  • Special

• I'm a good friend.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Good Friend

• 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.

  

  Charlie Cox

• 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.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Writing
  • Past
  • Style

• As one grows older, the sense of separateness is slowly reduced. Old people do not live on an ego level. Their concerns are not about their individuality but about the river of life, the family, the community, the nation, people, animals, nature, life. They can die easily if they are assured that life will continue positively, for they feel part of the river again, and soon they will be part of the ocean. When they are very old, they no longer belong to our time and space, but to all time and all space.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Peace
  • Alone
  • Partnership

• In the Woodstock movie, you see Justin, my son, who is now a filmmaker, being carried off by my wife at the time to the helicopter. He's just this little bundle of joy in her arms. And it's 1969.

  

  Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Wife

• If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Good
  • Men
  • Professional

• Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.

  Nick Willing
  • Different
  • Actors
  • Television