Tim Blake Nelson Quotes

I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.

Tim Blake Nelson

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WaterFishingYouDoneWantKind

It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'

Joe Haldeman

MusicBlackAmericaWhiteDramaSay

There certainly is a good 'Tex Mex' restaurant very close to our office. My office is around 100 yards from it. I call it Tex Mex because every couple of years it's changed hands and changed name, I'm not exactly sure why!

Andrew Oliver

GoodNameRestaurantHandsWhySure

Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.

John Lewis

PathKingMeBackNeverTeaching

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Stephen King

LifeYouWheelAlwaysWhereStarted

I love working with producers, like doing the record with Laidback Luke on 'Turbulence' and working with Afrojack on 'No Beef.'

Steve Aoki

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I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you are given three years to do whatever work you want.

Robert Darnton

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I wish I could do everything in 3D.

Martin Scorsese

WishI WishEverythingCould

We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

WorldFeelGuiltyResourcesLevel

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

Chief Joseph

WorkTravelManMeFreeStop

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.

Claire Tomalin

LifeWritingThinkSometimesMore

If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.

Suzanne Collins

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I feel strongly about HIV/AIDS and children because I'm a famous singer, a public figure, and I'm a female and a mother. I have the responsibility and the passion to help out and do whatever I can.

Peng Liyuan

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