Nilsson (Harry Edward Nilsson III) Quotes
It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.
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Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.
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I've been a leader practically my whole life. I don't know what it is to follow.
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I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money. Even for a cheap movie, you need film stock and equipment and actors.
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Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.
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Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute. You could even register it on a graph at the DJ booth. "How fast are they burning calories, sir?" "126 a minute." "Are you sure?" "Oh, I'm very sure." You can meter that out.
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The arousing from sleep, after a recent misfortune, is a bitter moment; the mind at first habitually recurs to its previous tranquility, but is soon depressed by the thought of the contrast that awaits it.
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You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded
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I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.
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I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.
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Madonna is the only modern celebrity who is truly a style icon. Who else has the audacity to dress like her these days? She really influenced how I wanted to look when I was growing up, and made me realize that I didn’t have to look like a blond beach bunny or a Playboy model.
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I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
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I'm jackin' off reading Playboy on a hot afternoon, I'm a three time loser.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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I like a little bit of punk mixed with a little bit of feminine.
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We're really in limbo. Frustrated is the best word I can come up with.
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It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.
