Steven Johnson (Steven Berlin Johnson) Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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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.
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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.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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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.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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Being able to go into Wimbledon and be part of an amazing atmosphere is special.
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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.
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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.
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The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
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Campaign widowhood totally suited me, and I soon began to suspect that our setup beat the bill-paying and bickering of an actual marriage.
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Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore.
