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 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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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
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It was seriously just a name. They didn’t tell you what to do. They didn’t tell you how they wanted the character to be - nothing. You went in to audition for this character name and that was it. When I started, before I came onto the set, I went to Gene Roddenberry and said: hey, what do you want from this guy? Who is he? And being as smart as he is, he said: don’t listen to what you’ve heard or read or seen in the past, nothing. Just make the character your own. And that’s what I did.
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So often, our sporting allegiances are shaped by family tradition, passed down like heirlooms.
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I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.
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Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
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I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
