Nick Johnson (Nicholas Robert "Nick" Johnson) Quotes
I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.
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I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
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I would say I am an amateur guitarist.
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The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response actually make ulcers more likely. That's why businessmen eating giant T-bone steaks were prone to ulcers.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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I think people desperately want to feel love.
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Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
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The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.
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I'm not in the big leagues just because I'm cute.
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The Champions League nights are special for the fans, too. You can feel it on the streets.
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It's just really exciting to have the ball in my hands. Not just on defense but to make plays on special teams also.
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I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.
