Nick Johnson (Nicholas Robert "Nick" Johnson) Quotes

I'll get mine in a few years, when I get up there and when the time comes.

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• Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Friend
  • Best

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Servant

• As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Day
  • Rest

• Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Nice

• All my life I have fought corruption.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Corruption

• Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Law

• I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Age
  • Old Age

• I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Like
  • Living
  • Disappointed

• There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • World
  • Truth
  • Utopia

• People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Death
  • Wish

• You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged. And unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Comedy
  • Color

• I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Training
  • Gym
  • Week

• When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • God
  • Party
  • Responsibility

• Because the traditional mode of dress for Muslim women is so distinct - the headcovering, which is not there for guys - women carry a greater burden of representation than Muslim men do in non-Muslim societies.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dress

• The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Rest

• We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Why
  • Single

• Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'd much rather leave £2bn to charity, or £3bn or £4bn, than £1bn. That is my motivation to carry on working as hard as I do.

  

  John Caudwell
  • Charity
  • motivation

• I've learned a lot from the experiences that I went through in high school, through college and overseas, and just everything in life. That is what prepared me for coming into the NBA, being undersized, no recognition, not getting anything easy, and I have been fortunate to prosper in this league.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.

  

  Carol Loomis
  • Time
  • Experience
  • History

• People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it’s sunshine.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

  

  Dennis Rodman
  • Attention
  • Hair

• I'll get mine in a few years, when I get up there and when the time comes.

  

  Nick Johnson
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