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Eric Nicol

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• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Forget
  • Solitude
  • Cherish

• I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Money
  • Lose

• I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Why
  • Lost
  • Sometimes

• I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • God
  • Football

• Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Always
  • Better

• When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Like
  • Radio

• I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Good
  • Money
  • Job

• I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Family
  • Very
  • Roots

• We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• I don't own cable, but my TV came with a Netflix button.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Own
  • Button
  • Netflix

• Got your mama and sister dabbing.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Sister
  • Got
  • Mama

• I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

  

  Samuel Johnson

• The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.

  

  Maimonides
  • Good
  • Evil

• We have forgotten that before we began calling this date rape and date fraud, we called it exciting.

  

  Warren Farrell

• Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Insurance

• I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• Somebody said something funny to me the other day. They said, 'Wolper, until two weeks ago, your tombstone was going to say, 'David Wolper, the man who produced 'Roots.' I think the tombstone now has a new inscription. It's going to be 'David Wolper, the man who produced the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympics.'

  

  David L. Wolper
  • Funny
  • Tombstone

• The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Life
  • Different
  • Game

• But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

  

  John T. Flynn
  • Political

• A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in one of his essays: "Reality exerts pressure on the imagination." Inevitably what is omnipresent in the culture exerts its pressure on our imaginations to respond to it, even if indirectly. But in this case the backdrop of 9/11, coincident with the breakup of a marriage, the finding of new love, some kind of personal cataclysm... all of those were forces informing the poems in some way.

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Political
  • Reality
  • Taken

• The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • American
  • Powerful

• Most Americans don't understand Canadian political parties. Neither do most Canadians

  

  Eric Nicol
  • Political
  • Party