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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On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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Yesterday people thought it would be a failure. Today they can see that it's a great success.
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I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.
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I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrowful--is fulfillment. The fullness of life is open to all of us.
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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.
