John H. Johnson Quotes

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

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• What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Important
  • Me
  • Vote

• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Will
  • Going
  • Guess

• My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Up
  • Country
  • Internet

• I am a big music nerd.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Music
  • Nerd

• It's always an honour doing anything for your country.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Country
  • Always
  • Doing

• The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Life
  • Problem
  • Lose

• People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Financial

• I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Inspired
  • Very
  • Tomboy

• Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Real
  • Confidence
  • Doubt

• I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Beginning
  • Exercise
  • Start

• Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Science

• What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Society
  • Always
  • Down

• People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Know
  • Read

• There's a lot of mental illness in my family. So, if you catch schizophrenia, get four boxes of Mike and Ikes, a Bible, and a cage. Wait it out.

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Family
  • Bible

• I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o'clock, and because I had boxing, I lived the disciplined life. I started reading because I learnt that so many champions educated themselves. Joe Louis, Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins. Before, it was 'act now, think later' - but the discipline and reading changed me.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • Life
  • Home
  • Reading

• I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division

• We found what we could at that time - the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn't find, that, of course, is a duty on their part, as is the truth. It will be the truth.

  

  John Sherman Cooper
  • Time
  • Truth

• You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

  

  John H. Johnson
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