Calvin Johnson Quotes
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
Baltasar Gracian -
In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
Kate Christensen -
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
B. Carroll Reece -
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky -
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
Camille Paglia -
In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
S. Jay Olshansky
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
Camryn Manheim -
As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
Famke Janssen -
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
Sam Kinison -
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
Washington Irving -
I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
Karl Urban -
In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
Walter Ulbricht
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
Aaron Neville -
My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
Waris Ahluwalia -
I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
Fleur East -
It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
Wayne Dyer -
To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.
Vidya Balan
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North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.
David H. Murdock -
I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.
Conrad Hall -
I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
Sam Heughan -
My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
Kary Mullis -
We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.
Gavin MacLeod -
I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
Calvin Johnson