Michael Johnson Quotes
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play rock shows and have tons of tattoos, they will still go to church on Sunday and do their best to live that kind of a life.
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My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
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Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured.
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
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Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
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I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.
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One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
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Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.
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Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him.
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When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' – instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'
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My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.
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Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
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I have this L'Oral Superstar mascara, it's two sizes: One side is to make it thicker, and then you put the black layer on, and it gives a beautiful look.
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When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.
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You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.
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There's no way to explain it. We just got beat up. We're not stop-ping nobody, man. ... And if we can't stop nobody on the defensive end then it's hard to get into any type of running game, easy baskets. Every time they're scoring on us, and we're coming down and playing against a half-court set.
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The only one who can beat me is me.
