Ben Nicholson Quotes
I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
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The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
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I am happy in Paris.
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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy.
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There are more than a million British people living in Spain. There are hundreds of thousands of British people living in France. In fact there are tens of thousands of people living in almost every EU country and if we were to pull up the drawbridge on the English Channel, the truth is British people wouldn't be able to come and go because they'd take action against us.
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I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I get into it that I realize what I've thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success.
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What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.
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I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
