Rick Nielsen Quotes
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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With 'Game of Thrones,' there are no real limitations.
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Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.
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The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.
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I don't do Twitter because I don't want to talk about myself more than I already have to.
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We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
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Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
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I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.
