Chester Nez Quotes

Quiet! English only!” The dark eyes of a matron bored into me. “English, or you’ll be punished.” I wonder what she said?

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• Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.

  

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• Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.

  

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• He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

  

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• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  

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• I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'

  

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• I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!

  

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• I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.

  

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• As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

  

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• I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.

  

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• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

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• The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

  

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• My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.

  

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• I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.

  

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• When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.

  

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• Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

  

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• I should be European, man. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.

  

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• David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.

  

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• Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

  

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• You got these $10,000-a-plate dinners and Golden Circles Clubs. I think when the average voter looks at that, they rightly feel they're locked out of the process. They can't attend a $10,000 breakfast and they know that those who can are going to get the kind of access they can't imagine.

  

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• I never said half the things I said.

  

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• "More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

  

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• Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.

  

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• I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

  

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• Quiet! English only!” The dark eyes of a matron bored into me. “English, or you’ll be punished.” I wonder what she said?

  

  Chester Nez
  • English
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