Galveston Giant (John Arthur Johnson) Quotes
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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My main thing is I'm going to compete on every play, try to be focused on both ends of the court. That said, I'll always bring my excitement, my swag, to the game.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
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Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever.
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We keep calling for accountability and reinvestment and a push for all of us to imagine a world where black people are not policed but instead supported and loved and cared for. Where our families can feel safe and inspired and protected.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Maybe I'm not a good enough artist that people just think of me. Maybe in the future, I'll bloom into something that will just make people look at me for what I am.
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Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
