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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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'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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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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Canada is a really big melting pot of cultures, so we ended up with a giant mosaic of different music.
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I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.
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I don't think of myself as an American Master. I've just been making a living.
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The best compliment we ever got on 'Clone Wars' was a parent coming up and telling me that it was something they could watch with their kids. I really love that.
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It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.
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I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward.
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The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
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Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life -- whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor.
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I sing what society lives in general.
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My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.
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For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.
