Nick Mason Quotes
Buying a Ferrari is like buying Château Pétrus if you like fine wines. It's the safe choice.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say.
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First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.
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'Every apostle or disciple,' Mrs. Clarke says, 'as much as their running to follow they're savior-they're running just as hard to escape something else.'
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Anger's not a good emotion.
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People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
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Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who hears the regrets of the thieving automobile? Is there anything in the world sadder than a train standing in the rain?
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Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.
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Will screw them hard, fast, and in an elegant manner.
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I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.
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We need hot, dry weather. Upper Valley and New Mexico farmers were not hit as bad with the rainy weather as the cotton farmers in the Lower Valley, but we're (also) having trouble getting equipment in the fields.
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What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.
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A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
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All my collaborators unilaterally said that I need to just stay on one idea for longer. And of course I understand that. I like to switch gears a lot, and I like this kind of sloppy attitude.
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The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible.
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People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.
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I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.
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Buying a Ferrari is like buying Château Pétrus if you like fine wines. It's the safe choice.
