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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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.
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For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.
