Steven Johnson (Steven Berlin Johnson) Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde
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I made all my generals out of mud.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
Zebulon Pike
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
Karl Lagerfeld
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
Tamron Hall
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
Adam Cohen
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
Carly Fiorina
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
Irving Babbitt
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
Yo-Yo Ma
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
Vaclav Havel
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
Sam Smith
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It's brutal out on the football field.
LaDainian Tomlinson
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
Beatrice Wood
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
Tariq Ali
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Being able to go into Wimbledon and be part of an amazing atmosphere is special.
Kate Middleton
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
Patrick deWitt
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I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a public university. I started my first company when I was 21. I've subsequently never worked for anybody else. I started that first business when I was still in college.
Victor Mitchell
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The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
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I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.
Camila Alves
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I never know how I'll feel on any given day, but I've got to look around me and take what I got and find some inspiration, some anger.
Allison Janney
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The joke newspaper, it says Canada abandons the monarchy.
Mark McKinney
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I think the greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people. ... You have the opportunity to explore ... alternative ways of living for a brief time.
Ian McDiarmid
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Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore.
Steven Johnson