Jon Johansen Quotes
All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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My difficulty with the whole right-left construct is that I don't think it describes modern politics or the modern choices that people face in the world.
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I believe it is the flaws that make us interesting, our backgrounds, the hardships.
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The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales, newspapers, novels, films, works of art of all kinds.
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...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world.
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Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.
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All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
