Don Johnson Quotes
It was a tough night for us. We can't make any excuses. They were better than us tonight and deserved to win. Considering what all we have been through this year, I am happy with where we are at. Our kids will be okay.
Quotes to Explore
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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You can't be in love with a Google search.
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What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.
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Let's just say beauty inspires me. But I like all beauty - I think it really comes from the inside out.
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Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character has been that complete and detailed.
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It was a tough night for us. We can't make any excuses. They were better than us tonight and deserved to win. Considering what all we have been through this year, I am happy with where we are at. Our kids will be okay.
