Johann Lamont Quotes
I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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Life is like an analogy.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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I have no new voices - they've all been used.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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I came along at a time when the industry was eating its young.
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Before the boiling of blood and the searing of skin comes the secret catastrophe: Before Life on Earth becomes finally merely impossible, it will for a long time before have become completely unbearable.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.
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I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.
