Nilsson (Harry Edward Nilsson III) Quotes
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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The star of 'Narcos' and the director and creator of 'Narcos' are both Brazilian superstars. So Brazil has received 'Narcos' particularly well as it's been well-received around the world.
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As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
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Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
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The characteristics of Sadhuguna, Satwaguna, and peace and all such qualities, come from non-attachment. When Buddhi becomes steady, it is called Satwaguna. Sat (truth) is like letters engraved in stone. The talk of the worldly is like letters engraved on a chalk slab.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
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Sometimes reality is better than dreams
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Dreams are nothing more than wishes and a wish is just a dream you wish to come true.
