Kurt Johnstad Quotes
Save for a few people in my life, every close male relationship that I have, they're all warriors, whether they're SEALs, competitive martial artists, or professional mountain climbers. They have a certain code.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
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I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut.
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It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.
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What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Save for a few people in my life, every close male relationship that I have, they're all warriors, whether they're SEALs, competitive martial artists, or professional mountain climbers. They have a certain code.
