Nick Earls Quotes

You can have your own language. You can have your own dialect; you can have your own way of saying things, but if you don't actually understand the way the language fits together, it's chaos.

Nick Earls

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I eat tuna fish every day for lunch. That's all I ever have.

Jerry Speyer

DayLunchFishEvery DayEatTuna

When it comes to heartbreaks and disappointments, I often have to be more or less done with them to be able to write about them. Then you might ask why I would write about them at all, but I think I owe it to the Jens of the past.

Jens Lekman

PastThinkYouDoneWhyWrite

The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.

John Katzman

WorkBestMoving ForwardValueThink

There's no harm in me. Really, I'm just a big kid.

John Lydon

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The actual technique, the process of painting flat color and simple geometric edges, all dates from my time here on Coenties Slip.

Robert Indiana

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Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Jeanne Moreau

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That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.

Sid Waddell

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Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.

Tommy Lasorda

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You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

Roger Kahn

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Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today's voters: flip-flopping politicians who speak in poll-tested platitudes. Yes, he's the anti-Romney.

Ron Fournier

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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Moliere

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Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

Jose Saramago

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