Johnny Simmons Quotes
I'm so freaking happy when I talk to people who saw 'The Greatest.' I love that movie. It was the most intense job.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I'm trying to be more organized, put together, and be more kind to myself. I'm really hard on myself and really just self-critical and always striving for this perfection which doesn't exist.
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I spoke Franglais growing up.
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I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn't get banks to fund me; I couldn't recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn't want to deal with women.
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Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone number that does not apply anymore. They think about their life as if it was a salami which they are eating slice by slice and then they become grown-ups, but what are they now? Only those who grow up and still remain children are real human beings.
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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
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Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.
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I'm so freaking happy when I talk to people who saw 'The Greatest.' I love that movie. It was the most intense job.
