Eric Johnson Quotes
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away.
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A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.
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Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.
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I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.
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There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.
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Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.
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The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it.
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I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about going to the theater again, if they've ceased or gone less.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
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There's not much chance the bond will fail.
