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I have a real no-nonsense dad who taught me how to be resilient at a very young age. -- Nicole Ari Parker
New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone. -- Dustin Clare
Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression. -- Richard Dawkins
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters. -- Bear Grylls
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. -- Robertson Davies
September is pantyhose month. No nonsense. -- Dave Parker
Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast. -- Susan Wojcicki
It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen. -- Phyllis McGinley
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. -- Bertrand Russell
In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union. -- Cesar Chavez
Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good. -- William Hurlbut
Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run. -- James Russell Lowell
No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake. -- Aldous Huxley
Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public. -- W. H. Auden
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. -- Camille Paglia
I'll be firm," I promised Patch, adopting a no-nonsense expression. "No backing down." By now Patch was full-on grinning. He kissed me again, and I felt my mouth soften its resolve. "You look cute when you're trying to be tough," he said. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone. There's a nice sense of reality on the set and it's really enjoyable. There's a good camaraderie and a good banter between the obviously New Zealand and Australian rivalry. -- Dustin Clare
The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there's no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection. -- Donatella Versace
My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes. -- Brian Dennehy
Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest never hit home this hard. Reading of Eddie Perlmutter's exploits is like rolling in an aisle paved with broken glass and wanting to do it all over again two minutes later. -- Loren D. Estleman
The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain, they'd be happy to settle instead for seeing someone being baked alive in his own armour. You didn't get the chance every day to see someone baked alive in their own armour. It would be something for the children to remember. -- Terry Pratchett
He was a superb military officer but he was also an extraordinarily gifted politician. That he was an unusually open, honest and no-nonsense politician did not make him unsuited for the profession, only uncommon. In uniform and in politics Barry's purpose was always the defense of freedom. And nobody before or since managed the task more ably or more colorfully than Barry Goldwater. -- John McCain
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. -- George Bernard Shaw
Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics. -- Frank Tipler
There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques. -- Susan Strasberg
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash. -- Anthony Hopkins
My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs. -- Carol Bartz
I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all. -- John Lydon
My cosmetic range, easy4Men, is not going that well. It's meant to be for the no-nonsense man, but now I don't know if the no-nonsense man exists. -- Stelios Haji-Ioannou
I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians. -- Luke Ford
My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first. -- Arsenio Hall
On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security. -- Otto Schily
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. -- Karel Capek
Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else. -- W. Edwards Deming
I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene. -- Gary Kemp
The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese. -- John McGahern
Dive bars are much more my thing. They're no-nonsense. -- Scott Eastwood
In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius. -- Walter Bagehot
We'll never survive!" "Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has. -- William Goldman
No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books. -- Julia Quinn
Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense. -- Debasish Mridha
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all -- Nikolai Gogol
If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. -- Edward Gorey
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Some people will make nonsense excuses to avoid things they have no interest in doing. -- Ellen J. Barrier
There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear. -- Sepp Blatter
A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. -- Tom Stoppard
There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense. -- Leigh Hunt
No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense. -- Steve Maraboli
Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell. -- Steven-Elliot Altman
Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph. -- Swami Vivekananda
Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good. -- William Hurlbut
I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations. -- Daniil Kharms
Yume is a no-nonsense dog. There are many people here, with camcorders running, lights shining and cameras clicking. She is being a guard dog. -- Vladimir Putin
I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense. -- Charlotte Bronte
You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense." -- Napoleon
Cut away the nonsense, the drama, the regret, the scars of the past, and make a decision to no longer let them govern your happiness and freedom. -- Steve Maraboli
There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense. -- Eva Green
Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us. -- Pope Francis
I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks. -- Nora Ephron
It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense. -- Isaac Asimov

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