Rick Nielsen Quotes
When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.
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In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
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Sometimes it is okay to have some chocolates and ice-creams. We all have those days sitting in front of the TV and have those. But you have to have the balance.
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I think the trouble with artists or chefs who whine about criticism is that if you love the good reviews, you have to at least read the bad ones.
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If something produces an undue amount of pleasure or undue amount of displeasure, it's going to be judged differently and it's going to be introduced in your narrative with a different size, with a different development. So that is the next element to superimpose on the sequencing element. And in fact, that element is so powerful that very often it can trump the sequencing event, that the sequencing aspect.
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When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.
