Harold Nicolson Quotes

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Harold Nicolson

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• It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

  

  Natasha Leggero
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  • Up
  • World

• I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
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• Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

  

  Hank Aaron
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• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

  Dan Gable
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  • Mom

• I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

  

  J Mascis
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• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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  • Great
  • Women

• Fage does not make great yogurt.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
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  • Yogurt

• Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.

  

  Cameron Russell
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• I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.

  

  Ed Harris
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• I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
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  • Music
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• People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• I am not here to beat anyone. I am here to make a name for myself, and I am glad to work with great directors. I don't believe in the term 'next superstar.'

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
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• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  

  H. G. Wells
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  • May

• I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.

  

  Dan Rather
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• What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
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  • Heart
  • Why

• The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• Actors are not a great breed of people, I don't think. I count myself as something of an exception. I grew up in the theater, and my values were about the work, and not being a star or anything like that. I'm not spoiled in that way, and if I fight for something, it's about the work, not about how big my trailer is.

  

  Amy Irving
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  • Up
  • Work

• The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn't know if it was black, white, hip, square, male, female... whatever. I'd hear melodies and things and got intrigued on that level.

  

  Robert Palmer
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  • Music
  • Black

• It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.

  

  Hans Jonas
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  • Religion
  • End

• Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry.

  

  Ava DuVernay
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• The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Great
  • Marriage
  • Successful