Nikita Koloff (Nelson Scott Simpson) Quotes
You can live your dreams if you can embrace change. It's by taking chances that you'll learn how to be brave.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.
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It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
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What I think is sad about the rom-com genre is that it has adopted this pejorative title. I think the reason why there haven't been as many great ones is because we are fighting against the genre itself. If it is a romantic comedy then snuggle up to the fact that it can be a really earnest, refreshing feeling to feel good after a movie.
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For most developers, that kind of situation – a player figuring out how to do something that the designer didn't intend – to most developers, that's a bug. For me, that's a celebration.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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HBO churn out some unbelievable stuff. They really got me with things like 'Band of Brothers.' But you can't beat 'The Sopranos.'
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So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.
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Honest people can disagree on policy. But where there can be no honest disagreement is the need to change our nation's debt course.
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I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the time we reach adulthood, we are closed and set in our attitudes. The chances of a poet reaching us are very slim. But I can open a child's imagination, develop his appetite for poetry, and more importantly, show him that poetry is a natural part of everyday life. We all need someone to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. That's the poet's job.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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You can live your dreams if you can embrace change. It's by taking chances that you'll learn how to be brave.
