Paul Johnson (Paul Bede Johnson) Quotes
For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
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I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.
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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
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Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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Typically, I work with the script and the director for awhile before, just to make sure we're on the same page.
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I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.
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In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed, but not always, nor always without remainder.
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.
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A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.
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Branding says a lot about luxury and about exclusion and about the choices that manufacturers make, but I think that what society does with it after it's produced is something else. And the African-American community has always been expert at taking things and repurposing them toward their own ends.
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Writers tend to think they occupy a much more relevant place in society than we actually do. But we really are closer to buffoons and jesters than we are to whistle-blowers or moral guides. Accepting our rather insignificant place in society can be depressing - but it's also freeing.
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Our treasure is what we fear losing, and I fear that we fear losing our treasure. We are lovers of money.
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I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.
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For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.
