Louis Nizer Quotes
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.
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The advice I like to give to drummers is that there's no right or wrong way of playing the drums. I think the drumming community can be very antiquated and very stuck in the past of, like, this Neil Peart style, technical Guitar Center drum video kind of approach. That you need to have played for 15 years before you ever do anything worthwhile.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth.
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Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
