Future (Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn) Quotes

I'm just not going to settle for anything, you know?

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• The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Political

• Never count on the crowd to take care of you.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Never
  • Care
  • Take Care

• When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Always
  • See
  • London

• Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Days
  • Oil
  • Tokyo

• It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Like
  • Hard
  • Saying

• Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Best

• I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Work
  • How

• My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • Military
  • Background
  • My Own

• Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Done
  • Experience

• I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
  • Up
  • Alone

• Taking care of yourself is so important.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Important
  • Care
  • Yourself

• To contemplate is to look at shadows.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Look
  • Shadows
  • Contemplate

• When I was inspecting the guard of honor and as I walked past one person, I saw through the corner of my eye some movement. Then I saw a man reverse his rifle at me. I ducked down a little bit in a reflex action. By my ducking, he missed my head and the brunt of the blow came on my shoulder below the left ear.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • Past
  • Action
  • Honor

• Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipeWhen tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers, wooing the caressMore dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by farThy naked beauties-give me a cigar!

  

  Lord Byron
  • True

• All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Life
  • Today
  • Freedom

• The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Desire
  • Contentment

• Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Up
  • Money

• I'm always nervous about singing...always. It may be one of the only things I sweat about.

  

  Ed Robertson
  • Singing
  • Nervous
  • Sweat

• As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Remember
  • Morning
  • Taken

• I counsel our children to do their critical studying in the early hours of the morning when they're fresh and alert, rather than to fight physical weariness and mental exhaustion at night. I've learned the power of the dictum, "Early to bed, early to rise." When I'm under pressure, you won't find me burning the midnight oil. I'd much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Children
  • Morning
  • Fight

• A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting loose, in the story’s beginning, it better not be used to prop up a bookcase and then forgotten later on.

  

  Ansen Dibell
  • Story
  • Used
  • Knife

• I'm just not going to settle for anything, you know?

  

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