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Nick Flynn Quotes

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 26, 1960

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Life Respect Honor Someone You Just

Jason Statham is funny, I never knew that.

Melissa McCarthy

Funny Never Knew Jason

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Yourself Someone You Joke Share

And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.

Care Mission Protect FBI September

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Wisdom Power Thought Because Had

Jesus is the politics of the new age; He is about the establishment of a kingdom; He is the one who has created a new time that gives us the time not only to care for the poor but to be poor. Jesus is the one who makes it possible to be nonviolent in a violent world.

Stanley Hauerwas

Age Time Politics World Care New

One of the happiest times of my life, I lived in a tent on a porch on Hawaii.

Life My Life Hawaii Porch Lived

With the press there is no 'off the record.'

Donald Rumsfeld

Off Press Record

I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.

People Think Connections Internet

My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star. So I learned from my parents that it's about hard work, about both of them getting their education, putting people first and leading a life of integrity.

Life Work Hard Work Education Father

There were two auditions for 'The Social Network,' one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, 'Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?'

Hands Nervous Okay Two Without Hold

Do as much theatre as you can while you're at school.

School Theatre You Much While

Computers add convenience to our everyday lives, but we are limited in what we can do with technology others have imagined. The ability for humans to teach machines entirely new things - coding - is nothing short of a superpower.

Technology New Things Computers Short

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