Demetrious Johnson Quotes
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
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The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.
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A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
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What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.
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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
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When people are depending on us, we end up finding strength we didn't know we had.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything, and I didn't have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.
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Is we runnin' TO it or FROM it?
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I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.
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My personal view is the true long-term storage is mineral carbonates, which is some form of accelerated weathering.
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Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
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My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.
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I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.
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UFC has failed to market and promote me appropriately.
