Peggy Johnson Quotes
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.
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Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.
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Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
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With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'
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I made a misstatement and I stand by all my misstatements.
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Constantly ask yourself, 'What level is above this one?' This makes things different. Take personal problems for example. Problems are not solved by choosing between this and that. The very need to choose indicates misunderstanding. Problems are solved by outgrowing both this and that.
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Ambitious men never believe others aren’t the same.
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Defend your opinion only if it can be shown to be true, not because it is your opinion.
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Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
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..paint was always in history of painting a means to an end, whether the end was religious, social, decorative or romantic. Now it's become an end in itself..
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I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
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Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.
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A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.
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Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.
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I remember being really shocked after Mellow Gold came out and going on tour, and all these kids were there. It totally disturbed me. Who are all these young people? I'd been playing Mississippi John Hurt covers in coffee shops to a bunch of thirty-, forty-, fifty-year olds. Then all of a sudden there were these teenagers.
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We all have to think about the emerging markets.
