Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
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It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?
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If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.
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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
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Tonight I won't be alone
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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Hatred was a plant of slow growth.
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It's everything to me. This is my life. I love football so much.
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It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
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The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.
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The position you hold and the work you are now doing.
