Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
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I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.
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I never did work in the off-season, and I never did play winter ball or anything else. I think it was good for me to get away after a full season... In those days, I don't think anyone ever got too complacent.
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Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life.
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You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.
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I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open my mouth and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.' They want to put you in a box in LA, that's how they tend to do it there, so if you don't fit in that box, it makes it more difficult.
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Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.
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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
