Craig T. Nelson Quotes
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Personally, I had a close friend with cystic fibrosis. I won't ever forget how he handled himself. In the face of extreme challenges and very harrowing circumstances, he maintained a positive outlook and was just very dignified, even in his suffering.
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I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.
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When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain.
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Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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I mean, a lot of my family are teachers.
