Rick Nielsen Quotes
When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.
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The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
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I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career and have made an album, it's really surreal.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey homeowners are trying to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. Miami government officials are trying to plan for rising seas and flooded streets. California farmers are trying to make it through the state's worst drought on record.
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I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.
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As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.
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We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
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Somewhere down the line, I realised that dairy products were giving me acidity, so now I am a vegan.
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I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.
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Today, in every wave of every ocean, I see our children playing and dancing. Today, in every plant, tree, and mountain, I see our children growing in freedom.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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To a mouse, cheese is cheese. That is why mouse traps are effective.
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It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.
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The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.
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So, what exactly is the News-Press' unforgivable crime? Calling illegal aliens 'illegals' in a headline for a story about illegal aliens descending on California DMVs. A new law went into effect last Friday allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses without proof of lawful residence. The article featured interviews with ecstatic illegal aliens, including one who has been in the country illegally for '22 years.'
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When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.
