Nixon Waterman Quotes

Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'tis better than many have, for while we've a whole lot of troubles the most of them never occur.

Nixon Waterman

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• I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.

  

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• I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

  

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• I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

  

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• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  

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• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  

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• Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!

  

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• We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.

  

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• I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

  

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• We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

  

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• Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

  

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• I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.

  

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• The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

  

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• Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

  

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• In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

  

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• I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.

  

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• I had a great life at Boeing. I'd been there for 37 years and contributed to all the Boeing airplanes as a designer: the 707, 727, 37, 47, 57, 67 and 'triple 7' and the 87.

  

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• I regard sex as the central problem of life. And now that the problem of religion has practically been settled, and that the problem of labor has at least been placed on a practical foundation, the question of sex—with the racial questions that rest on it—stands before the coming generations as the chief problem for solution. Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

  

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• Sex is energy.

  

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• If you are approachable, if you keep your line of communication open, then very often, you get to hear what you need to hear.

  

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• When I have downtime, music is a big part of my life. Not so much singing, but I play the guitar.

  

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• Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'tis better than many have, for while we've a whole lot of troubles the most of them never occur.

  

  Nixon Waterman
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  • Troubles
  • Bubbles