Eric Nicol Quotes
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.
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Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.
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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
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Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.
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I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.
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God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
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Our awareness gap and the fuzziness about how people might understand Ulta today is a ripe opportunity for us as we think about going forward. I imagine this is like almost relaunching the brand of Ulta.
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We have to ask if it is once again the summer of 1914. Small acts of terror in the Middle East, in South Asia, could lead to cataclysm as they did in Sarajevo.
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A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.
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I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.
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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.
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God has allowed me through the BSB to minister in a positive way, encouraging people to stand up for what they believe.
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The fashionable Canadian drug habit, instead of cocaine, is to sniff real snow.
