Demetrious Johnson Quotes
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
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I feel like I've made good friends with people I've worked with, but in terms of lasting inspiration, it is probably Matthew Vaughn who directed 'Kingsman' who's been really supportive, loyal to me, and been a really good person to work with.
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It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
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I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.
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Ay, call it holy ground,The soil where first they trod;They have left unstained what there they found -Freedom to whorship God.
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It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
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Consider this: The United States held its first presidential election in 1789. It marked the first peaceful transfer of executive power between parties in the fourth presidential election in 1801, and it took another 200 years' worth of presidential elections before the courts had to settle an election.
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I married my college boyfriend, so I've been with him since I was a kid.
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A chef and a restaurateur are different jobs: One is about pleasing people with what's on the plate; the other is about understanding the market. I'm a chef, but I think I'm a savvy businessperson, too.
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I work way too hard in the gym to woo the judges and just skate by.
