Eddie Bernice Johnson Quotes
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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The lack of collective dignity felt by so many in the Arab world is the result of a combination of internal autocratic and corrupt regimes, with predictable ineffective and unaccountable governance, supported by external actors with short-term geopolitical interests.
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The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.
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The force is tired and that is different for equipage and different from other metrics of readiness. We have run people hard and we have run families hard, and they haven't had much time to recover.
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It is always impossible-he was conscious again with that strange clarity of mind-for a man to face his own death honestly. A man always continues to believe to the last moment of his life that something will intervene to save him.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
