Michael Johnson Quotes
You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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Courtroom dramas can be boring.
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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
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I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.
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I love Chanel.
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I totally regret as a German what happened at this point of history. But when people ask me are you, as a German, feel responsible for the Holocaust? No, because I'm born 1965 and it would be completely un-logical to say I'm responsible, but as a country we are responsible.
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Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
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Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
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Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
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I always played games with my friends, but as I got older, my friends stopped playing.
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By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.
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Harry Dresden: You can never tell how someone is going to handle power - not until you hand it to them and see what they do with it.
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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I was talking to a woman last night. I said, 'I’m not like other people.' She started to giggle. Then I raised my voice and said evenly, 'That’s one blessing God gave writers - they’re not like other people!'
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I only do private room karaoke where it's just me and one of my closest girlfriends. My mom always said I could really belt songs out, and the Dixie Chicks feed that encouragement.
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I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, 'We've got to evacuate. There's a hurricane's coming.'
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You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.
