Don Johnson Quotes
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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Nobody's dumb in this relationship [with his wife] or in the relationships of any of the other guys in the band. But it's also not the cliché that those on the outside envision.
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If I rob a gas station, I'm going to get 15 years. If I steal $400 million on Wall Street, I start plea-bargaining.
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The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
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My swag is always capital and live in north Virginia.
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No second Johannesburg is needed up on the earth.One is enough.
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I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.
