Nigel Calder Quotes
The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.
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The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
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I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.
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A man being sued after a woman has more sex than intended is like Lay’s being sued after someone has more potato chips than intended. In brief, date rape can be a crime, a misunderstanding, or buyer’s remorse.
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At the earliest ending of winter, In March, a scrawny cry from outside Seemed like a sound in his mind. He knew that he heard it, A bird's cry, at daylight or before, In the early March wind.
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If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
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Rien ne réussit comme le succès.
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I regard religion as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
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'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!
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Mon triste coeur bave à la poupe.
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Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth?
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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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When I am back home, I have an upright piano and I play constantly.
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The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.
