Kristen Johnston Quotes
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
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I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.
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Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
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It's kind of weird. You can have hits, but it's hard to sustain a career. I went through that period where I didn't have a lot of hits, although people were still buying the records.
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There is some pretty powerful self-interest in wanting a future that is not just running storm-to-storm. The argument that I make is not that we aren't competitive and selfish and greedy. We are. We're all of these things. We're complicated, competitive, greedy and nasty, and kind and generous and compassionate.
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If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?
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I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.
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The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
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On '30 Rock,' the hours were really intense, and I was often on set. I'm glad I didn't have a kid then because I don't think I would have ever seen her. I would work 15-hour days, and weekends, too.
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In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.
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I look back at my old school journals, and they're full of self-hatred, full of me condemning myself for not being prettier, richer, more popular.
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Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
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my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so many.
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It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It's exhausting. You have to force-feed. You have to force yourself to eat food.
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That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.
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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
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I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.
