Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.
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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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I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early '70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexist, racist stereotypes.
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The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
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Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.
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I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
