Nuggets Quotes

• Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.

  Tracy Morgan

  Rocks, White, Competition

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• The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

  Virginia Woolf

  Notebook, Teacher, Women

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.565, Wordsworth Editions

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• Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

  Jane Haddam

  Opposites, Littles, Facts

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• Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Opportunity, Thinking

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• There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

  Bradley Cooper

  Order, Spurs, Stories

  "Interview: Limitless' Bradley Cooper". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, www.cinemablend.com. March 15, 2011.

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• Taking pictures is like panning for gold. You do it again and again, and sometimes you find a nugget.

  Raghubir Singh

  Gold, Sometimes, Taking Pictures

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• I'll eat a nugget of my own poop for 20 bucks. I'll pay you 20 bucks and I'll eat it.

  Tom DeLonge

  Poop, Bucks, Pay

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• What was fun for me with this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] was to start out with the principle that went, "We're going to fight every day to make this not a novel; make it too short to be a novel." And then with that principle in place, the book sort of starts to say, "Okay, but I really need this. I really need some historical nuggets." And you're like, "All right, but keep it under control."

  George Saunders

  Fun, Book, Fighting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Ideas, Vision, Littles

  "Esperanza Spalding: Insubordinate by Nature". Interview with Alex Frank, pitchfork.com. March 8, 2016.

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• Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift.... The self is malleable but elastic, snapping back to its original shape like a rubber band. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Self, Personality

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.100, Vintage

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• I have nothing. My model is I have nothing figured out, and I'm starting with some little nugget and hoping that it will talk back to me enough to let it grow.

  George Saunders

  Littles, Enough, Starting

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff.

  Swizz Beatz

  Growing Up, Jeans, Hip Hop

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• Enough is enough. I'm a champion. Look at me, I'm a champion. I am not a nugget.

  Owen Hart

  Champion, Looks, Enough

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• The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts of ordinary men. Science is as old as the race, but the effective organization of science is new. Ancient science, like placer mining, was a pursuit of solitary prospectors. Nuggets of truth were found, but the total wealth of knowledge increased slowly. Modern man began to transform this world when he began to mine the hidden veins of knowledge systematically.

  William Wickenden

  Faith, Men, Essence

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• An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.

  Diane Ackerman

  Way, Moments, Poet

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• This next nugget of salesmanship cannot be perfected in a single afternoon. However, once you have it mastered, your competition will continuously believe you possess some mystical customer attracting formula

  Chris Murray

  Believe, Competition, Afternoon

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• Taco Bell is going to start selling nachos and chicken nuggets wrapped in a tortilla. In other words, thank God we're going to keep Obamacare.

  Conan O'Brien

  Obamacare, Thank God, Nachos

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• My decision leaving the Nuggets was based on the organization not saying they had the cap room to sign me.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Organization, Decision, Leaving

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• I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.

  Michael Arrington

  Writing, Issues, Trying

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• Parents needs to spend more time with who they're trusting their kids with. That's one of the nuggets going forward. Find out who these coaches are. Figure out their environment and what kind of problems they have, and see if you want your child involved with that.

  Ray Lewis

  Children, Kids, Parent

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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• All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,-real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.

  Max Muller

  Perseverance, Real, Book

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• I love chicken. I love chicken products: fried chicken, roasted chicken, chicken nuggets - whatever. And going to Japan, I would see that these chicken were smoked and then grilled and then have this amazing crispy skin.

  David Chang

  Japan, Skins, Chickens

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• If you look at me close enough, there's a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don't know if it's my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.

  Kevin Hart

  Hair, Resemblance Is, Skins

  "Kevin Hart: the Realist Husband of Hollywood". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 2, 2013.

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• I noticed whenever you call information, 411, there's always a computer voice, and they go, 'What number would you like? City and state, please.' 'Yeah, I'd like the number of Macy's in Century City, California.' 'Did you say 'pretzel nuggets'?

  Andy Kindler

  Cities, Voice, California

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• I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.

  Jill Tweedie

  Hate, Reading, Avid

  Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited

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