Johnny Kelly Quotes
People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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My best friend is my husband.
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When I got out of the military, I finished up my education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and I had some mentors who said, 'You got what it takes. You should consider going to graduate school, getting a Ph.D. in neuroscience.' I didn't think I had what it took until somebody who had a Ph.D. told me I had what it takes.
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
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I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.
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I'm Southern, so alligator tail is pretty interesting and yummy.
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I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.
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People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it.
