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 was never treated differently. I never felt like I was lesser or I was discriminated against. I've only experienced that after I became an actor.
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The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.
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I don't rise to the occasion unless I'm really moved.
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Play it like something you hear down by the river.
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There's no right or wrong, success or failure.
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There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
