Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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I love my sleep.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
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A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.
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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
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But I come here today, Berlin, to say complacency is not the character of great nations.
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Some people do really find fault like there's a reward for it.
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Kings and tyrants have armed guards wherewith to chastise certain persons, though they be themselves evil. But to the Cynic conscience gives this power-not arms and guards. (119).
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
