Nilsson (Harry Edward Nilsson III) Quotes

Everybody's talkin' about me, I don't hear a word they're saying, only echoes on my mind.

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• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Important
  • Political

• You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Work
  • Real
  • Remember

• A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Age
  • Woman
  • Everything

• Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • You
  • Attitude
  • Eagles

• The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Internet
  • Media
  • News

• Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • American
  • Man
  • Action

• I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Progress
  • Name
  • Determined

• We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Always
  • English
  • Trouble

• My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Father
  • Government
  • Courage

• Very quickly I fell in with others like me-newcomers, dreamers, young people drawn to the city in spite of its dangers because sometimes, for some of us, tedium and familiarity feel worse than risking your life.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • People
  • Life
  • City

• Would you like the oldest, most historically significant athletic competition the world has ever known, attracting athletes from every known nation on the face of the planet to come here and perform at the peak of their abilities, in the very city where you live? Most British people go, 'Where will we park?!'

  

  Marcus Brigstocke
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

  

  Al Stewart
  • School
  • Law
  • Cool

• I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

  

  David Storey
  • People
  • Football

• My kids learned to be independent.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Kids
  • Independent

• As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

  

  Joel Edgerton

• Middle Eastern cuisine has the same depth of ingredients and processes as other cuisines. They just haven't had as much exposure.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Same
  • Middle
  • Exposure

• Businesses that make consumer privacy a point of competitive differentiation will enjoy greater customer loyalty.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Loyalty

• Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

  

  Antonio Lobo Antunes
  • Death
  • Cold
  • Sad

• The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• The conscious mind can only pay attention to about four things at once. If you've got these nagging voices in your head telling you to remember to pick up the laundry and call so-and-so, they're competing in your brain for neural resources with the stuff you're actually trying to do, like getting your work done.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• Everybody's talkin' about me, I don't hear a word they're saying, only echoes on my mind.

  

  Nilsson
  • Mind
  • Word
  • Everybody