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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If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.
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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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If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
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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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We must tell girls their voices are important.
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I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.
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Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."
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My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.
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I met Bette Midler, who I absolutely love.
