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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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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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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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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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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I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it all. I'm 6 ft. and weigh about 18 st. or 19 st., but weighing myself is not something I do with much pleasure.
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Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
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I have to have coffee in the morning.
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What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke
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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.
