Nick Johnson (Nicholas Robert "Nick" Johnson) Quotes
The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.
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I would love to be a role model.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
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He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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I would put myself towards left of center.
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But I've consistently worked for 10 years.
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I wanted to build a tool for my generation: people 20 to 40 who don't want to spend time balancing a checkbook or checking multiple financial institutions' websites. Mint does just that, giving comprehensive, quick insights into a user's finances from their computer, mobile phone and/or tablet.
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.
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I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
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I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.
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Everybody right now, they look at the current technology, and they think, 'OK, that's what artificial neural nets are.' And they don't realize how arbitrary it is. We just made it up! And there's no reason why we shouldn't make up something else.
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I take a lot of risks in the ring.
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Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
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It's always fair to criticize, to question, to engage about things like whitewashing and violence against women and choices of lack of diversity. All those things are really, really a good thing to talk about.
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The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.
