Joe Nichols Quotes
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.
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My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.
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I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
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You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.
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There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.
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A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'
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Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.
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Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.
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I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.
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I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.
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I really like structured coats and layered scarves, and I especially love cashmere sweaters.
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Once I had left 'Twin Peaks' and started doing other shows and other movies, I kept running into, 'No, no, we can't do it this way. This is the way it has to happen.' I'm like, 'No. I've already done it, and it worked, so I don't understand what you're saying.'
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Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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When you get bullied, success is the best revenge. Always remember: the kids who bully you are losers and will remain losers.
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I've been blessed to spend time with young people and help encourage an environment where it's comfortable for them to be who they are. That's precious for children.
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What matters is whether the audience likes the film or not. Everything else is secondary.
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I think the Lord gives us everything we can handle, nothing more.
