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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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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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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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I'm not a sexist. I believe if a man can to go work all his life, a woman can. Who am I to say, 'Don't do that because you're a girl?'
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My best evenings are at home with my lady.
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Humans are still much better than computers at recognizing speech.
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I remember seeing a stage version of Plato's 'Symposium' and being really moved because it was written by a man rather than a culture.
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All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
