Jamie Johnson Quotes

It's not like us to give them five in the first. We usually have very good games against Canada, so it's a tough one to lose. We've never actually been down 5-0 before, so it was a new thing for us.

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• With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.

  

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• I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.

  

  Victor Ortiz
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• Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.

  

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• There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

  

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• I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.

  

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• The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

  

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• But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
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• I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

  

  Walt Disney
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• On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are angry and aggressive, to just take the tension away, make the moment go away.

  

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• Actually, I'm not a gym rat. I'm not a gym person - I've never been. I've always been blessed to be thin. If I'm waiting for the kettle to boil, I'm doing 15 lunges.

  

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• The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.

  

  Zack Snyder
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• I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.

  

  Adam Hicks
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• I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.

  

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• If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.

  

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• My mother never watched me train in Romania. She wasn't allowed, it just wasn't done back then. My training was paid for by the government. My parents were not at the Olympics with me, either. I never expected them to be.

  

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• I love to cook. I could never give that up.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
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• You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

  

  William P. Young
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• We've have chemistry that we've been building with him not playing, so we're trying to fit him in. People can't be so critical of him. I mean, let him play three or five games. Corey's a great player, but he hasn't played in three months, so you've got to give him some time to get back into the swing of things.

  

  Chris Kaman
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• It's not like us to give them five in the first. We usually have very good games against Canada, so it's a tough one to lose. We've never actually been down 5-0 before, so it was a new thing for us.

  

  Jamie Johnson
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  • Canada