Nick Xenophon Quotes
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I don't look at Hollywood as a big break. Indian film stands on its own.
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We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.
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... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.
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My denim jacket had 'I love GNR' and 'I love AC/DC' written all over it, but I always came back to swing.
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Producing a film is more unfamiliar territory. Although producing an album and overseeing artists is a task within itself. But film is unfamiliar territory so, here and now, that's more difficult.
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The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.
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On a personal note, a legacy he left me, aside from being a friend who was important to me on many levels, was that the decades I knew Sam [Fuller] happened to be the decades that were his least happy professionally.
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Run while you still have the chance.
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What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.
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Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
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I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.
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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
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The Republicans initially sort of saw George W. Bush as a blank canvas, didn't they? It seems like they interviewed him when he was governor of Texas to see what kind of candidate he could be.
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What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just gather material and find a scenario, and see where it takes me. I don't have a plan.
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People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.
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That's when I got my guard down. He was okay with going to my office and meeting people and being seen. That's how he got me.
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I don't know if I am a very good politician. I'm not a good hater.
