What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?


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NICK HARKAWAY
When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.
NICK FALDO
The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special o...
NICK TURSE
At training, I consider myself a bit of a morale booster. I take a pack of lollies just to boost the...
NICK CUMMINS
I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this en...
NICK HARKAWAY
Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.
NICK HERTL
You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at th...
NICK OFFERMAN
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
NICK GORSKI
You want to be appreciated for all your work as opposed to one performance, but I'll always be &...
NICK MORAN
I wish I was a cool guy and could drink coffee black, but I put almond milk and raw cane sugar in it...
NICK KROLL
Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way...
NICK HARKAWAY
So, your kids must love the iPad?” I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The com...
NICK BILTON
Over the years I've come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from be...
NICK TROUT
It may be a cat, a bird, a ferret, or a guinea pig, but the chances are high that when someone close...
NICK TROUT
People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what ...
NICK HARKAWAY
As I live life, I believe that the highest value I, and anyone who is ready, able and willing, is to...
NICK CATRICALA
The word is control. That's my ultimate -- to have control.
NICK FALDO
The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.
NICK NUESSLE
With rivers as with good friends, you always feel better for a few hours in their presence; you alwa...
NICK LYONS
If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.
NICK NOLTE
Magic isn't done; it's only just begun!
NICK NEWBERRY
If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's...
NICK DIPAOLO
Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
NICK DIAMOS
Modernism isn't a design ethos any more, it's an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ...
NICK HARKAWAY
A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without a...
NICK HARKAWAY
Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to d...
NICK WOODMAN
We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've ...
NICK ROBINSON
I'm developing more stuff in my voice, more Nick Swardson. It's me as myself in a sense and ...
NICK SWARDSON
I think our slow, humble beginnings in surf shops, ski shops, bike shops, and motorcycle shops have ...
NICK WOODMAN
In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people woul...
NICK HARKAWAY
I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was re...
NICK HARKAWAY
Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite ...
NICK CLOONEY
One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing...
NICK CLOONEY
Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be pas...
NICK BOSTROM