Nick Johnson (Nicholas Robert "Nick" Johnson) Quotes

I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.

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• My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Better

• Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Passion
  • Moral
  • Better

• Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• You either get better, or you don't progress.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • You
  • Progress
  • Better

• With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Perfect
  • Better
  • Imperfection

• I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Better
  • Special
  • Tea

• I've always had a strong start, but the start in boardercross is so important. And if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Better

• I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Better
  • Far
  • Editor

• I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Confidence
  • Better
  • Thanks

• The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Better
  • Destiny
  • Self

• Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Better
  • Price
  • Jeans

• When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Better

• I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Different
  • Learn

• Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Better
  • Performance
  • Mobile

• The less I talk about being black, the better.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Black
  • Better
  • Talk

• I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Work
  • Always
  • Better

• Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • Think
  • Better

• I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow from it. You just have to try to take what you can from it and then move on to the next phase of your life to be better.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Better

• Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • World
  • Travel
  • Better

• Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Government
  • Better
  • Economy

• My focus is to stay up the middle. If I'm a little early I'll hit it to left, if I'm a little late, I'll hit it to right.

  

  Andruw Jones
  • Focus
  • Middle
  • Stay

• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Growing

• I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • People
  • Day
  • End

• I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.

  

  Nick Johnson
  • Better
  • Yankees
  • Drafted