Rick Nielsen Quotes
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always working, so we never really had time for that. I think I kind of learned to accept it.
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Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.
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I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name - Steed's name.
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As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.
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There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.
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When you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.
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Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.
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Egypt has responded to hundreds of thousands of protesters by shutting down the Internet. Just a word of advice: If you want people to stay at home and do nothing, you should turn the Internet back on.
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You can never find the right bowling ball. This one's too heavy. This one's good but its pink!
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After I had my dream, I got into numerology. Like my buddy's name is Bill, and I would say, "B is a two, and each I is a nine, and the L's are fours. And that's eight." I would figure out everybody's numerological single-digit number.
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A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live by God's principles instead of just living selfishly.
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We'd go through the whole story again, ... but when we got to that part, he kept saying, 'I don't remember.'
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There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.
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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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There is a 114% increase in happiness when receiving rewards via mobile marketing.
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You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
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The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.
