Philip Johnson Quotes
The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
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I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
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I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.
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'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'
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Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.
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Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.
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The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.
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Samuel smiled at me. 'Freedom and fairness are very important to you, aren't they?' I nodded, and frowned. 'They're important to everybody.' He laughed. 'Oh, no, Anita, you would be amazed at the number of people who try to give away their freedom at every opportunity. They much prefer that someone else make their decisions.'
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I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.
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Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
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The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
