Nick Johnson (Nicholas Robert "Nick" Johnson) Quotes

You play to win, to get that World Series ring, All-Star games and whatever comes with it.

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• Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Time
  • Democracy

• Once I finish shooting, I head straight home and spend time with my family. It's only when I have to promote my films that I make public appearances.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Want
  • Doctors
  • Washington

• I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Great
  • Book
  • Stories

• The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • War
  • Free
  • Government

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Given
  • Key
  • Golden

• My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• Paris ain't much of a town.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Paris
  • Much
  • Town

• Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Strong
  • City
  • New York

• Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Country
  • End
  • Switzerland

• My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Up
  • Done
  • College

• The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Darkness
  • Human Heart

• I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Dad
  • Perfect
  • Play

• Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • World
  • College
  • Graduation

• Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Fun
  • End
  • Circumstance

• When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Star
  • Woman
  • Ship

• Some people's weight loss is impeded by an impaired thyroid. So I think it's worth testing that at your next physical exam. If it's off, sometimes, that can be caused by excess metals, such as mercury or cadmium. A qualified M.D. can help you cleanse your body of those.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes

• I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Interesting
  • Team
  • Win

• My memories of events and games are fragmented.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Memories
  • Games
  • Events

• Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Win
  • Guilty
  • Will

• My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That helped broaden my palate generally, but I know it informed my distaste for factory farms and unspectacular commercial meat.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Father
  • Games
  • Experts

• You play to win, to get that World Series ring, All-Star games and whatever comes with it.

  

  Nick Johnson
  • Play
  • Win
  • Games