Nicole Burnham Quotes
I’m one of those people who struggles to relax, even though I know it’s important for my mental health.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.
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I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.
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I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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I want to play Lena Horne because I've always been fascinated with her. Her talent was astounding and more than that, her life story is incredible.
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I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.
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It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.
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Christ receives people; because of that mercy, conversion happens.
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
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It's through my health that I'm able to maintain that every single day and keep light in people until I'm actually of service to others.
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I’m one of those people who struggles to relax, even though I know it’s important for my mental health.
