Rachel Johnson Quotes

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• We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Winter
  • Autumn
  • Brainy

• Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Focus
  • Wealth
  • View

• It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Reality

• I tried theatre. I played Miss Hannigan for a short run of Annie at a regional theatre. That was fun. I enjoyed it! I enjoy theatre and have so much respect for theatre actors.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Fun
  • Respect
  • Theatre

• I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • People
  • Class
  • Few

• I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • Music
  • Song
  • Write

• It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Different
  • Best
  • Golf

• Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.

  

  Lake Bell
  • School
  • Beautiful
  • Marriage

• Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog's anxiety in the face of the world's intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Happiness
  • Memories

• The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Idea
  • Racial
  • Gathering

• Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Reason
  • Spirit
  • Genius

• Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning?

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Why
  • Beginning

• On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Bad
  • My Own
  • Posture

• I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Kid

• One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Time
  • Live
  • You

• Being beautiful isn't everything... Sometimes it's interesting to show how you feel on the inside on the outside, just through expressing yourself.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting
  • Yourself

• The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Real
  • Drama
  • Epic

• Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • People
  • Winning
  • Awards

• I suppose I do have half decent legs. They're long and lean. Most of the time, people go on about my eyes. When I was little, people used to call me Ching Chong Chinamen in the days before political correctness. When I got older, they became a positive feature.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • People
  • Little
  • Legs

• And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.

  

  Juan Goytisolo
  • Important
  • Situation
  • Discovery

• I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Gold
  • Collecting

• I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a feel for language and also a great affection for the work you're translating. If one of those elements is missing the translation won't be worth much.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Missing
  • Japanese
  • Translated

• 'The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.

  

  Rachel Johnson
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  • Lady
  • Magazine