Philip Johnson Quotes
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.
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The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.
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I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.
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Awards are for young people. They just are.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
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So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's great,' or whatever.
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If our inner being was to be turned to the outside, and our outer being turned inward, we would appear with more wounds and diseases than the Prophet Job. For each sin that we commit and each doubt that enters our mind causes wounds in our heart and our spirit.
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In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
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It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.
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What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. -Nana
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
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A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.
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I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.
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Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.
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In football, you're hitting, so you might as well hit in practice.
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I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease... I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.
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I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
