Jon Johansen Quotes
Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment.
Quotes to Explore
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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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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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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Credit is an 'I love debt' score.
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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
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People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.
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I loved the college experience of studying.
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Most everything I’ve done I’ve copied from somebody else.
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Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment.
