Kristian Nairn Quotes
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
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As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
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Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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The great love of my life is music.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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Jeff is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who plays a lot of obscure two-letter words that shouldn't count but for whatever reason are considered legitimate. My father is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who takes hours with his turn and then plays deliberately misspelled words that no one has the heart to call him out on. I am the perfect Scrabble player, both serious and considerate. Obviously I lost by a lot.
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We don't live in a particularly attractive world. I don't really remember, except as a small boy, anything but a pretty grim world.
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But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.
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We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.
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I wanted to be a guitar player.
