Nancy Wilson Quotes
I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of applications, and too many low-quality patents are being issued as a result.
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I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.
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I don't know how many kids I am going to have, but definitely I am one of those women who wants to have family and kids.
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Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
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There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.
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We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
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I would like to be more fit, but I don't think I will put on fat or gain weight for movie roles. I am not going to do that.
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Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; Both most are valued where they best are known.
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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.
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I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
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I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!
