Steven Johnson (Steven Berlin Johnson) Quotes
Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
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There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot of jobs and values. So we need to focus on small businesses or entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing or making things.
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One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
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I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Ruzzle's my therapy. When I get off the stage from a packed show and I'm exhausted, I'll just go Ruzzle for like a good 30 minutes.
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Each year, you've got to talk about it more and more, you've got to have programs. You're doing these camps, you've got to talk about concussion awareness.
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The greatest of the greats wouldn't be the greatest of the greats if they didn't try stuff, you know what I mean?
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I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
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A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.
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You want to have the experience. As far as the creative side, the more I do this, the more I know that it's all about the writing. You got on a film sometimes and it's sort of half-written, and they expect and think that the actor's job is to bring the extra part and the good part. It's not. We're good at saying what other people have written, but for the majority of it, that's about it, comedians aside. It's all in the writing. Whether that's dialogue or character, or whatever, it doesn't matter. As long as they've done something special, than you can do something special.
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Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.
