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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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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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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If most of those who took part in this one-dimensional debate were honest with themselves, they would admit that they do not in principle believe that the United States can do any good overseas for anyone but the American government, its armed forces, or privileged American elites.
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I'm a writer, but this is a business. You have to look at it in the way you would look at any business.
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My whole life, I've been a Temptation.
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While eating gluten-free may help you lose weight initially because it eliminates baked goods, one has to be smart when choosing replacement options because the gluten-free versions often have the same number of calories.
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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.
