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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Artists don't compare themselves to each other based on money. Nobody really knows what money other artists have. They don't care that much. The measure is the work and how you think your work is perceived. How the museums are. How you are doing.
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Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.
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And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.
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Most website developers say an aggregator website, such as what healthcare.gov is, could be built easily for a half a million dollars. They have spent a half a billion dollars.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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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.
