Gerald Nicosia Quotes
People on a mission are unstoppable. God bless them for it. It would be a poorer, more miserable world without them.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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When you hear bad things about yourself, just put your energies into something else; it's no good crying about it. Just put it into your music - it'll make you stronger.
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In retrospect, I can see that President Brezhnev was quite proud of the limited agreement that he had concluded in Vladivostok; and to have a new American president come in and say, "That is not good enough - let's do much more, and do it quite rapidly," took him by surprise.
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And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
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I always knew I would come to London. I loved Glasgow, but it seemed filled with echoes of my parents' lives, and sometimes you just want a city of your own.
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Data is the new oil.
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People on a mission are unstoppable. God bless them for it. It would be a poorer, more miserable world without them.
