Paul Johnson (Paul Bede Johnson) Quotes
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A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.
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My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.
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At a earlier age, I was kind of into a pretty large scope or range of music from Hieroglyphics and the Hobo Junction guys and all that to like a lot of stuff that was in New York like Diamond D, Nas, Brand Nubian, of course Biggie, OC, Organized Confusion, Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Digable Planets, who I just saw recently, and they killed it.
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People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.
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Hunger can bring out the worst in us.
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I seem to be able to just sort of sink and slide under the radar, which is nice.
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I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.
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Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.
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Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.
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'My Family Recipe Rocks' is on the Live Well Network, and we go to people's homes and watch them cook.
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I have my sympathies and also my critical views, and they aren't much of a secret, but my first job is to see and hear and think about what I've seen and heard.
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The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.
