Nicholas Boothman Quotes
All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
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Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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Each new generation needs to commit again to the foundations of our peaceful coexistence.
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I think we all have had better days in competition.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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I put up some great numbers.
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Half of life-the interesting half of life-we don't even have a name for.
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Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.
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I think early on in my career, I was heavily inspired by bands like Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept, and films of David Lynch, for example, where the soundscape plays a very important role in the listening experience.
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Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
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I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.
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All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people.
