Rick Nielsen Quotes

I love to be the loudest thing in the room.

Rick Nielsen

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LoveLoudestRoomThingI Love

I don't tackle major global events. I don't like to read about something - an event, a cataclysm - in fiction for the sake of reading it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

ReadingEventsFictionSomething

For a long time after childhood ended and before I expressed my femininity through androgyny, I really didn't like looking in the mirror much because I just felt like I wasn't attractive.

Andreja Pejic

TimeMirrorChildhoodLookingLong

I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

John Irving

GoodCharacterTimeBelieveBetter

I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

GoodHatePeopleHellSayGoing

Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.

Jay Parini

WorkGoodHappinessJobGood Work

I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.

Derek Bok

ResearchThinkCareerJailHand

To me, I think of the '70s as being this glorious decade where I discovered who I was and discovered all these amazing things... punk rock, electro music, fashion, all of that.

Boy George

MusicAmazingMeFashionThinkRock

When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.

Wyclef Jean

LoveMyselfTogetherWordsPoetry

I have no intention of telling people what I have for breakfast.

Princess Margaret

PeopleBreakfastIntentionTelling

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Publilius Syrus

WisdomManWiseWise ManOthersOwn

I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.

Sylvia Kristel

LifePainThinkEndMy LifeKnow

I come from Carol City. The city renamed it Miami Gardens.

Rick Ross

CityMiamiComeGardensCarol

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