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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Some have said that we should not have this debate. I disagree.
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I don't want people to think I believe in God.
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I think we need to get the measurements that Congress has mandated from the White House on how we're going to determine progress in Afghanistan.
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Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn't have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn't be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library's peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light.
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I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
