Philip Johnson Quotes
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.
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As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.
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Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
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I'd rather entertain people than offend them.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.
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Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn't want to be like them? That's the trick - to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.
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People ask me all the time, 'What is it like being on set for a show about trans people?' And this is a state of normalcy to me.
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I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
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Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
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There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
