Demetrious Johnson Quotes
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.
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When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.
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Hospitals are about healing.
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I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
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Now we're here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one's going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We'll see what happens.
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
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I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.
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A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.
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Ball parks are smaller and baseballs are livelier. They've practically got pitchers wearing straitjackets. Bah! They still allow the knuckleball, and that is three times as hard to control.
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I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.
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In professions where the criteria of professionalism, expertise, good manners and ethics apply, the gender aspect, i.e., whether a person is a man or woman, is not relevant at all. What is important is that citizens' confidence in politicians and the politics is strong enough to make politicians proud of their profession.
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[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.
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I try to be a good representative for country music. But as a country artist, it's important to move the needle and make a difference beyond your core audience. But you can't ever strategically try to accomplish that; then things get weird.
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I'm very well-rounded. It's mixed martial arts.
