Jeh Johnson Quotes
War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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I don't do things that are illegal.
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Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
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The Kenyans beat up on the American runners in every road race every weekend of the year, but we're way ahead of them in the number and quality of our Elvis impersonators. We get our X-Men and gorillas.
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There's the young Jon Voight and the old Jon Voight.
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In theory, the maturation of the Internet should have killed off the desire for zines entirely.
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In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.
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No century has been more concerned than ours to do away with war: it has proved signally unsuccessful. All too little attention has been given to the phenomenon that internal politics have become increasingly more warlike.
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War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children.
