Donald Johanson Quotes

It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.

Donald Johanson

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• There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Friends
  • Funny

• The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Freedom
  • Media
  • Expression

• I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• Drama starts where logic ends.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Drama
  • Logic
  • Where

• The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Time
  • Past
  • Better

• Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Energy
  • Amazing
  • Concert

• Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Man
  • Sleep
  • Old

• You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • Money
  • Art

• My father used to be a fisherman, so it always makes me feel close to him when I am there on the water catching my dinner.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Father
  • Water
  • Dinner

• Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you're not offering the reader a lot of action to keep her interested, you must offer something else in its stead. Slow pace is ideal for complex character development, detailed description, and nuances of style.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Action

• I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Peace
  • Support
  • Equality

• I try personally not to be nostalgic.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Try
  • Personally
  • Nostalgic

• Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Country
  • Equals
  • Bolivia

• I'm greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours, so that I could work more. I'm happy to be busy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Wish

• I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that. And I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Live
  • Country
  • Alone

• Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.

  

  Walt Kelly

• He had doubts about the utility of examination on subjects which had been crammed for the occasion. He wanted common sense.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

• For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery.

  

  Jenny McCarthy
  • School
  • Shadow
  • Recovery

• You know there’s no advantage to be gained by murdering idiots-it doesn’t teach the idiot anything and it might give onlookers the idea that you take them seriously.

  

  Charles Stross

• When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Truth
  • Christ
  • Buddha

• It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.

  

  Donald Johanson