Jamey Johnson Quotes
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
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Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.
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In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.
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People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.
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I'm not trying to emulate or imitate. But I do believe that I embody that spirit from Robert Johnson on up.
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I have a son and a daughter; I try to teach them equally about balance, gender, and gender equity.
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There's this old Frank Sinatra song: 'If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere'... that song was about New York, but it applies to America. People know that if you make it in America, you can make it anywhere, and that is both in terms of sophistication and customer satisfaction.
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Caffeine. The gateway drug.
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The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
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A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.
