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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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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Each artist attracts his own different set of fans. And G3 over the years has created it's own audience as well... they know it's something unusual and special that they're not going to get anywhere else ... young and old, both sexes, all come out. They all look at each other like, Wow, what are those people over there ? ... They're surprised at their own diversity.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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I was always interested in architecture, but the editors of the magazines who demanded these subjects for the illustrations of Hopper wanted people waving with their arms.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
