Nilsson (Harry Edward Nilsson III) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
-
I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
-
The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
-
I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
-
I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
-
Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
-
To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
-
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
-
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
-
If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
-
I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
-
Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
-
I'm such a perfectionist.
-
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
-
The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.
-
I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
-
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
-
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
-
We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness.
-
If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth
-
You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
-
Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
-
I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war's fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever-increasing enjoyment.
-
Go where the weather suits your clothes.
