Lesley Nicol Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.
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I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.
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There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.
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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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I saved every script I'd ever worked on as an actor.
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
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The Church owns property, needs income, employs men, works on human material, and banks on its moral prestige. Its present efficiency and future standing are bound up for weal or woe with the social welfare of the people and with the outcome of the present struggle.
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On a blue island in a sky-wide water The wild orange trees continued to bloom and to bear, Long after the planter’s death.
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Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.
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I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
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In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing - not surprisingly - that many slave masters were sadists who spent a lot of time thinking up creative ways of hurting people.
Colson Whitehead -
My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.
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And it was why he loved her. One of the reasons, anyway. Because he also loved her bratty comebacks. He loved the way she put her entire self behind whatever she was doing, even if she had no idea what she was doing and was getting it all wrong. He loved the way she danced as if she was connected to the clouds and the sun and the rainbows. And he loved that she’d stormed into his life and turned everything upside down before he ever had a chance to stop her.
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I think I should be a nightclub singer. I love to sing!
