Eric Johnson Quotes
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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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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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
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The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect.
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There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
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I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.
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I'm not in this sport to take punishment.
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
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What sweet, what happy days had I,When dreams made Time Eternity!
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Doctor, you keep asking me to see your point of view, which is based on ethics. You never see mine, which isn’t.
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Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house of his memory. In many respects Rilke was a prick.
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We should aim for peaceful coexistence at least and transcultural synergy at best.
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Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.
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My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.
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The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she - the author - should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.
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I hear background noise, but I haven't heard any specific legislation or author.
