B.S. Johnson Quotes
“Not how he died, not what he died of, even less why he died, are of concern, to me, only the fact that he did die, he is dead, is important: the loss to me, to us”
Quotes to Explore
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.
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I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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I've always wanted to be a singer.
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Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.
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The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
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There are not enough going into production so that we can tout them. Look at 'Precious'... In order for them to stand out, they have to get made in the first place, and that's just not happening enough.
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For me, I like to look presentable when I'm outside. I'm not going to come to the office with nasty hair and pajamas just because I stayed up all night - that's just who I am.
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When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.
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In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.
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We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.
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A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
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iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.
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“Not how he died, not what he died of, even less why he died, are of concern, to me, only the fact that he did die, he is dead, is important: the loss to me, to us”
