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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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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We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
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Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.
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I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I really didn't have the personal agency to express it, i kind of imagined that maybe at some point (I'd have to) own it publicly and discuss this kind of complexity.
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I remember thinking that I'd never show my arms on TV, but over time you loosen up.
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Let us be clear: the Yemeni revolution has already brought internal stability to a state riddled with war and conflict.
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The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.
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I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
