Marc Nelson Quotes
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
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Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.
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I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.
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The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
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There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
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As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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There's footage of me bouncing around, all uncoordinated, trying to work out how on earth you're supposed to do a rising trot on a really extravagant moving eventing horse.
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
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I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.
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Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
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My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.
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I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
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Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.
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To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But the cookbook record proves that the haute cuisine codified early in this century by Escoffier barely goes back to Napoleon's time. Before that, French food is not recognizable as French to modern eyes. Europe's menu before 1700 was completely different from its menu after 1800, when national cuisines arose along with modern nations and national cultures.
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If it was frozen, I would be able to see it. I can't look inside the tanks.
