Jon Johansen Quotes
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
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I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
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You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
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I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.
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Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well.
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If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.
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If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.
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Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular.
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If you want my answer about Donald Trump, you can Google it. It's everywhere. They've got this new thing called Google.
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
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I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.
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I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.
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My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.
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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
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The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood.
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Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.
