#ld

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#civil #dad #engineer #got #help

The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain. ↗

— Harold Nicolson

#attain #broadcasting #capacity #could #gift

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#accept #cannot #change #changed #distinguish

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#establish #justice #politics #sad #sinful

I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#body #expose #i #i do #i think

I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#being #bikini #coup #ended #held

I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#am #celebrity #female #filmed #first

If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#another man #around #buildings #designed #facade

I try to combine my work with my family, that's what I aspire to. I don't say that's the only thing. It's not all work and family, because otherwise you would be saying no to the many other things in life and there are many other things. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#because #combine #family #i #life

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#asked #certainly #concept #different #different things