Nicolas Bentley Quotes
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.
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Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
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I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.
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Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.
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But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.
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I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.
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One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
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Any hound a porcupine nudgesCan't be blamed for harboring grudges.I know one hound that laughed all winterAt a porcupine that sat on a splinter.
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Could technology, understood as the disposition and activity of mastery, turn out to be a stumbling block in the path of the master himself?
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An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.
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My favorite movie is 'Die Hard.' It doesn't have pinatas and mariachis. It's just a good movie.
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I'm an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me that's not a sensible hobby. But when I was growing, even more than I wanted to be funny, I wanted to be a racecar driver. That's all I thought about. I worked for a race team when I was 15 and I traveled with them.
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I think you're a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one.
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All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do.
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Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
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Children ask questions much more than adults do, and you have to wonder if this is something we have that we lose.
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He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.
