Eyvind Johnson Quotes

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.

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• I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.

  

  Adam Driver
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• But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

  

  Larry Niven
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  • My Life

• I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

  

  Sam Hunt
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  • Different
  • Want

• Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
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  • Last

• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

  Rachel Field
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• The media is controlled.

  

  Laura Harrier
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• If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Up
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• Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.

  

  J. Tillman
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• I gotta say, I know my strengths, and I know my weaknesses, and, well, Fix-It Felix, I'm not too far from that kid.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Know
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  • Kid

• I'm proud of my curves, my daughter, as well as the harsh past that helped shape me into the strong woman I am today.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Today
  • Past
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• What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

  

  Edward Albee
  • Real
  • Experience
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• It is not the biographer's business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them...dispassionately, impartially, and without ulterior motives.

  

  Lytton Strachey
  • Business

• It's a new world, Arcane...It's full of shopping malls...and striplights and software. The dark corners are being pushed back...a little more every day.We're things of the shadow, you and I...And there isn't as much shadow...as there used to be..

  

  Alan Moore
  • World
  • Dark
  • Shadow

• Money greases the wheel of American democracy and corrupts it all.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Money
  • American
  • Democracy

• Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Money
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• In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Fashion

• You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
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• I like underwater pole vaulting, because you can have perfect form without the risk.

  

  Katie Hoff
  • Perfect
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• I don't think the loss will make us play any harder. If you aren't playing hard at this point, then you aren't going to be playing hard anyway.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Playing
  • Loss
  • Point

• 'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'

  

  Charles Dickens
  • World

• School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature - anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in.

  

  India de Beaufort
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• Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

  

  Bill Frist
  • Science

• Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.

  

  Eyvind Johnson
  • Science
  • Create
  • Poets