Nicola Barker Quotes
All creatures are travellers. The most important journeys are the interior ones. The most important and the most hazardous.
Quotes to Explore
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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You don't see many Jon Jones's.
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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.
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I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
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I was given an incredible gift growing up in the Chelsea, a space where it is completely fine to be yourself - you just had to figure out what that was. You didn't have to figure that out in the face of opposition at every turn.
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I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
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Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.
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Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.
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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
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I'm not a fan of being inauthentic.
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I think I've been able to find happiness, and I've learned to love myself. That's a huge accomplishment for anyone, learning to love yourself.
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I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure.
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Experimentally, we now have demonstrated that Einstein's theory is right in strong gravitational fields. That's important to a lot of people.
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The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.
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All creatures are travellers. The most important journeys are the interior ones. The most important and the most hazardous.
