Jeh Johnson Quotes
What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an all-black, all-male school. Martin Luther King went there. The most famous person in my class was Spike Lee. And I really caught fire. I was so inspired by the people around me that I went from C's and D's to straight A's by the time I left.

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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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I never really learned photography.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
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It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.
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But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that.
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Despite the laserlike focus it generates, 'Tetris' has no clear endpoint and no easily defined opponents. Unlike with most other video games, you're playing only against yourself, without any concrete goals other than to keep on fitting blocks into other blocks.
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The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.
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What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an all-black, all-male school. Martin Luther King went there. The most famous person in my class was Spike Lee. And I really caught fire. I was so inspired by the people around me that I went from C's and D's to straight A's by the time I left.