Nigel Pulsford Quotes
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
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I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
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I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
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I will build you a castle with a tower so highIt reaches the moon.I'll gather melodies from birdies that flyAnd compose you a tune.Give you lovin' warm as Mama's oven.And if that don't do,Then I'll try something new.
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I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!
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You’ve been a father to me.Your 1960’s speak.Gives me comatose joy like re-run TV.While the mountainside was shining.Wild colors of my destiny
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Ah, wasteful woman, she who mayOn her sweet self set her own price,Knowing man cannot choose but pay,How has she cheapen'd paradise;How given for nought her priceless gift,How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine,Which, spent with due, respective thrift,Had made brutes men, and men divine.
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Dubois was the first black American to graduate from Harvard. He was accepted within the northern white intellectual circles as one of the 'best of his race.' As an avowed socialist, he was the only black member of the original 19 wealthy socialist founders of the NAACP.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own.
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The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.
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I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.
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The great thing about life is there's always a second chance so don't despair.
