Jimmy Johnson Quotes
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.
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As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.
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The Texas thing is such a big deal because whenever I see Texas in a TV show, they always show slow-moving cattle and cowboys with the hats. I wanted to show that Texas isn't a stereotype.
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If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.
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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
