Nicholas Boothman Quotes
All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people.
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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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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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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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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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I put up some great numbers.
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I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.
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Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
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Some primal termite knocked on wood And tasted it, and found it good! And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today.
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How stars move tell us that most matter in the universe is dark. When we see stars in the sky, we're only seeing five or 10 percent of the matter that there is in the universe.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people.
