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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Thank God that at this hour I am dangerous to the war profiteers of this country who rob the people on the one hand, and rob and debase the government on the other; and then with their pockets and wallets stuffed with the filthy, bloodstained profits of war, wrap the sacred folds of the Stars and Stripes about them and [about] their blatant hypocrisy to the world.
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Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.
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A trail without beginning has no end.
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So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.
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I met Bette Midler, who I absolutely love.
