Nicolas Cowan Quotes
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.
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Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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With Rajoy, there is a taboo topic, which is the aspiration of Catalonia to decide its future.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
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The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change.
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Of course there is really vile anti-Semitism in Wagner's writings, but I can't accept the idea that characters like Beckmesser and Alberich are Jewish stereotypes in disguise. Would Beckmesser be a court councillor if he was meant to be a Jewish stereotype? No Jew could occupy such a role.
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I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
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I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
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Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.
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If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can't worry about all the 'no's, because I believe there's a yes, and I've been very fortunate to find those in my career and made the most of those opportunities.
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I expected it to be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but having a kid brings you into the world in a whole different way.
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The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
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My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
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In a world with many blockchains and hundreds of tradable tokens built on top of them, entire industries are automated through software, venture capital and stock markets are circumvented, entrepreneurship is streamlined, and networks gain sovereignty through their own digital currency. This is the next phase of the Internet.
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The invention of Instagram and Twitter has made, like, a big difference. Because you can just talk to anybody. And find anybody, it feels like.
