Dennis Nurkse Quotes
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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I feel, even if someone is blessed with good hair, one needs to follow the basic hair care regime, and that means investing in the correct shampoo, conditioner, and mask.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.
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When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
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The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.
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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
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Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.
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The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
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Poetry teaches us how to live in a world in which none of us belongs.
