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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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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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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'Star Trek Into Darkness' isn't that 'Star Trek' is going to be no fun, and dark. It's that the fun's going to be challenged by some serious issues.
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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
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The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.
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Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you haven't met yet, all the choices you are going to have to make, everything you might achieve, and all the possible failures – unreal now? The future flaps round my head like a cloud of midges.
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Jamaican reggae is the style of music I always reach for when ranting to friends about how you could listen to one style of music exclusively for the rest of your life - and it would all be great and varied and worth hearing.
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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.
