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Nicholson Baker Quotes

I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

Nicholson Baker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 7, 1957

Topics

Love Music Dance College Writing

I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.

Jennifer Weiner

Women Princeton Studies

If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.

Life God Courage Great Death End

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

Language Idea Object Itself Unto

We gotta get Fannie and Freddie out of government ownership. It makes no sense that these are owned by the government and have been controlled by the government for as long as they have.

Government Ownership Long No Sense

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

Morning Sea Sky Tide Back Hot

There are only three million people in Uruguay, but there is such hunger for glory: you'll do anything to make it; you have that extra desire to run, to suffer. I can't explain our success, but I think that's a reason.

Success People Think You Glory Run

I start every day reviewing priorities, prepping for meetings, and getting updated on key projects.

Day Start Key Meetings Priorities

It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.

Good Start Feet Strong You Right

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Time Water People You Find Say

I wouldn't want to go back over my life. I've done it all. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the Marine Corps. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the war. I wouldn't have missed college. Or playin' for the Colts. I got all the money I need. Five children. I got a truck. I have no regrets whatsoever.

Life Children Money War College

When I was in my late teens, I discovered 'Fawlty Towers' and 'Monty Python,' and they still make me laugh.

Me Laugh Late Make Me Laugh Still

Back in 2005, I introduced a thing which, I don't mind saying this - I mean, we stole it, at least in its basic form, from Toyota - it's called World Class Manufacturing. I mean, it's this pretentious title for something which really involves the revisiting of the manufacturing processes of dedication to the removal of waste.

Sergio Marchionne

Dedication Mind World Saying Back

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