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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We are living in a culture where we are so led by the visual, and what is promoted in the media, that the attitude becomes, 'I don't have to go through normalcy in life - I can look for exemptions. And I expect them, and when I look for them and they are not there, I am angry.'
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I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don't obsess about it.
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Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.
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When you're comfortable with someone, you don't look for anyone else.
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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.
