Bill Nichols Quotes
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.
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'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.
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I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
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I can't drink anything but chocolate. I don't even like any milk but chocolate. When I eat cereal, I barely touch the white part.
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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
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You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.
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I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'
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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.
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Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself.
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I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.
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Behave simply and hold on to purity.
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It is absolutely sure that if globalization is not founded on moral values not only will it fail but it will bring about global calamities.
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There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.
