Bruce Johnston Quotes
We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
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I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.
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I just do these 'Sleep' type tracks when the situation presents itself. I never set out to do them, like wait all day until I'm really tired or something. Gotta come natural.
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
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Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.
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I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
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I love wine tasting in Napa. I don't have a huge collection, but the bottles I do have are special.
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I've been real fortunate to be on a lot of great teams.
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Having failed, do you accept failure, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn to other things? When night comes, do you accept the blackness of it, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn and wait for morning? Or do you go on striving to light a candle against that dark however often the wind blows out the flame, however often the night returns?
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.
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I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.
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Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
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Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.
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It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away.
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I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
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We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that.
