Nikita Koloff (Nelson Scott Simpson) Quotes
Have the courage to follow your dreams. It's the first step towards attaining your destiny.
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
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I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
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One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.
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I do believe that oil production globally has peaked at 85 million barrels. And I've been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises.
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.
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It's not easy to shout against real elements. The elements are big, and the human voice is very small.
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Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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They have to have an enemy. They have to create you as their enemy in order for them to continue their existence. It’s very ironic.
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We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?'
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
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The one thing we learned about community - you can't force community.
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I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.
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To be in the charts and hanging around with such huge names in the industry just feels like a complete privilege! I can't even explain how it feels - complete dream come true.
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President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.
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I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.
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Have the courage to follow your dreams. It's the first step towards attaining your destiny.
