Mike Johanns Quotes
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
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I'm just a human being. I'm from the projects, too.
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Be good at something. It makes you valuable.
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In a coma, you don't dream,you just hope that someone sits with you.
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Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
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In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.
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The jellyfish doesn't actively move anywhere - it's just moved with the tides. Is that what man is? Man's just the jellyfish: stuff happens to you, and you get twisted in different directions.
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I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests.
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If the fidelity [ in a book] isn't maintained, the reader will think your structure is extraneous, or superficial, or that you're trying to curry favor, or live up to the expectations of some sort of genre or structure.
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Phone networks can capture life on our planet.
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The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.
