Geoff Nicholson Quotes

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

Geoff Nicholson

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• I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.

  

  Sally Kellerman
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• I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.

  

  Sam Altman
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• I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Guitar
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• Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Love
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• I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Believe
  • Woman
  • Murder

• You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Care
  • Lucky
  • Medical

• I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Bills

• The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Real
  • Business

• I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • World
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• My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Job
  • Food
  • King

• I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
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  • Road

• I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Young

• You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Treat

• I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Men
  • Women
  • Independent

• The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Government
  • Discipline
  • Organization

• Nothing wrong with making money.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Money
  • Nothing
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• I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Bad
  • Happy
  • Think

• When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Time
  • Real
  • Character

• How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

  

  Malcolm X
  • Giving

• I feel like so much of why I sort of want to work in television is so that people know to come see me live.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • World
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• A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Done
  • Always
  • Digital

• A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

  

  Geoff Nicholson
  • People
  • Giving
  • Decided