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• Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

  Jack Adams

  Nice, Home, Letters

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• I like to make money, I like to have nice things. But I love to act, I love to tell stories.

  Shemar Moore

  Nice, Stories, Making Money

  "Shemar Moore: Criminal Minded [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. April 24, 2013.

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• Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Nice, Done, Deeds

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because its kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.

  Conor Oberst

  Goodbye, Nice, Thinking

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• On the steps of the Federal Building we ran into Carmencita Ibanez, a classmate of ours and one of the nice things about being a member of a race with two sexes.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Sex, Nice

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.28, Penguin

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• Corporate Social Responsibility is a hard-edged business decision. Not because it is a nice thing to do or because people are forcing us to do it because it is good for our business

  Niall FitzGerald

  Nice, Responsibility, People

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• Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.

  Jerry Bridges

  Thanksgiving, Spiritual, Religious

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate”, p.42, Tyndale House

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• I only use three primaries, so the nice thing is I can't have favorite colors.

  Chuck Close

  Nice, Color, Three

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• I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also.

  Kanye West

  Nice, Artist, Lineage

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• As confusing, unpredictable and stressful as life may be, always remember, it is never incorrect to be kind. When lost, just do nice things.

  Sean Plott

  Nice, Confusing, May

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2013

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• The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.

  Isaac Hanson

  Nice, Speak English, England

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• One nice thing about my momma is, she never gets on you for what you are not doing. I mean, she never looks away from the things you do only to notice what isn't on the plan. This is the most important thing in getting along with...anybody, and I can tell you because I copy it from her and it makes good sense. You don't go looking at the things people don't do, when they already be doing plenty in other areas. If your son collects stamps, why you want to go fussing at him because he doesn't play the clarinet? Check out his stamps, man.

  Bruce Brooks

  Nice, Mean, Son

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• The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.

  Julie Powell

  Nice, Belief, Sanity

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• I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.

  Patrick Marber

  Nice, Thinking, Awards

  "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.

  Miranda July

  Nice, Book, Years

  Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.

  Woody Allen

  Art, Real, Nice

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• Why can't rappers just say nice things? Like I wanna take your clothes off and hang them up in the closet real nice.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Real, Nice, Rapper

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• The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you will find you have not given yours away at all.

  Maya Angelou

  Nice, Giving, Needs

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• There are nice things in the world - and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked.

  J. D. Salinger

  Nice, Mean, World

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.

  Jack White

  Nice, Catholic, Guilt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.

  Sarah Lacy

  Nice, Guessing, Intensity

  "The Irony of the Social Media Era: It Was Created By the World’s Least Social People" by Sarah Lacy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• The nice thing about a series is you can end on cliffhangers all the time. You can be like, 'You know what? Here we go, this person just died, end of book.' And with the end of the series, you're very conscious of all the plotlines that were left hanging. There's a balance there to wrap those up but still leave it exciting.

  Richelle Mead

  Nice, Book, Balance

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• That's the nice thing about this job. You get to quote yourself shamelessly. If you don't, Larry Speakes will.

  Ronald Reagan

  Jobs, Nice, Larry

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1990). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.

  Andrew Dost

  Nice, Thinking, Driving

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• My wife thinks I'm very hot. She tells me that every couple weeks, especially when we go to the NCAA tournament and all the nice things come along with it.

  Gregg Marshall

  Couple, Nice, Thinking

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