Michael Johnson Quotes
A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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'Coexist' was tough to make.
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I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.
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You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
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America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.
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I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.
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My wife changes the way that I dress. She makes me dress nicer than I want to dress. I feel like I perpetually dress like a 14-year-old boy, and she makes me stand up straight and wear clean clothes.
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He asked my religion and I replied 'agnostic'. He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God. This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.
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Basically our championship starts here. Fourteen races, not sixteen. It's not a comfortable position to be in, but that's the reality. The team is conscious about the challenge we have to make to recover the ground over Benetton.
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I never read anything that's written about me.
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Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear.
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The first time I heard 'Georgia Peaches,' I absolutely loved it.
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The deal is that I hold myself to an extremely high standard, and it's a standard that can never be... it's unattainable. But it drives me to be the very best in everything I do.
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Every successful social movement in this country's history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.
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Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.
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New vehicle sales declined modestly, reflecting the performance of the broader new car marketplace following the end of the employee discount programs. Other sales and revenues benefited from increases in extended service plan revenues and service department sales.
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You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.
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You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.
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A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.
