Lesley Nicol Quotes
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.
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We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
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There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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The E.U. needs a strategy that marries a shared vision to common action.
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What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.
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I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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'Well, yes, surely I think everybody ought to enjoy life as much as it's humanly possible because that's why we exist. I believe.'
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The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.
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I try to be as independent as possible.
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In 2007, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would become a 'platform,' meaning that outside developers could start creating applications that would run inside the site. It worked.
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It's crazy how many nude lip crayons I own - I probably need to get rid of some.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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I met Bette Midler, who I absolutely love.