Philip Johnson Quotes
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.
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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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I spent most of my career in hi tech, not in politics.
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Every instrument requires to be made by experience.
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Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description — an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.
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I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.
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The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.
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Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
