Galveston Giant (John Arthur Johnson) Quotes
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things.
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I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.
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Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.
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I'm not happy if I'm not making music; it's as simple as that. It's a need.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
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I just do what's comfortable for me, whether it's getting fresh haircuts, or the clothes that I wear. It's simple; I'm just me. I don't really go out of my way. I do make sure my face is washed and moisturized, though.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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There is something joyous about not talking.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.
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There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.
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I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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I'm very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the way they behave in a natural environment.
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It's as simple as something that nobody knows.
