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 get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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I've always loved musical films; I find them really thrilling and exciting; it was part of what made me want to be an actress, that feeling of being really transported.
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Prismatic is the only word for those frightful tweeds and, oddly enough, the spectacle of them had the effect of steadying my nerves. They gave me the feeling that nothing mattered.
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
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The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
