Rick Nielsen Quotes

I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.

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• The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Women
  • Democracy
  • Road

• I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

  

  Larry David
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Version

• How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Most
  • Guilt
  • Extraordinary

• The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Quality
  • Measure
  • Citizen

• The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Emotions
  • Advantage
  • Lead

• Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Family
  • Texas
  • Farm

• 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.'

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • School
  • Me
  • Girls

• I don't ever want to be sad about my life.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Sad
  • My Life

• The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Money
  • Power
  • Political

• 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.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • People
  • Man
  • Woman

• One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • She
  • Sometimes
  • Write

• 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.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Time
  • World
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Country
  • American
  • College

• 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.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Heart
  • Space
  • Exercise

• With 'Game of Thrones,' there are no real limitations.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Real
  • Game
  • Limitations

• 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.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Time
  • History
  • Unique

• While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I've survived under the worst of eras and times, and I've always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.

  

  George Hamilton
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• In the annals of the rich and miserable, Christina Onassis stands out, if only because she was so rich and so miserable.

  

  Jeff Giles
  • She

• He who does not tire, tires adversity.

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Adversity

• My brother Robert wanted to act from a very early age, and there was always a part of me that said we couldn't have two actors in the family because our parents would go mental. So I became a runner for the Robert Stigwood Organisation and, one way or another, worked my way up to movie publicist.

  

  Philip Glenister
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  • Family
  • Movie

• I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.

  

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