Eric Johnson Quotes
I can't believe it. I've just got to roll with the punches and come back better than ever this year. I think I went through a lot of this stuff in 2003, mentally coming to grips with not playing.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows. So, to sum it up, it seems that whenever we take a couple of steps forward, we take a few more backwards.
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A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.
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It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.
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Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.
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Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.
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It takes local pastors to say, 'we're not going to take it. Be strong.
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or knowing.
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I get burnt in the sun, so there's no point me getting pecs for when I take my shirt off in the summer.
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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
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My work is always based on reality. I'm not an artist that creates works of fiction. I'm not an artist who is in my studio inventing things out of my imagination - everything is based on reality, on real facts.
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This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.
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I think even great writers only write two books that you might like. When I think of my touchstone writers like Saul Bellow, I think of 'Henderson the Rain King.' With Don DeLillo, I think of 'Libra.'
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I can't believe it. I've just got to roll with the punches and come back better than ever this year. I think I went through a lot of this stuff in 2003, mentally coming to grips with not playing.
