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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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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I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy. It's the home of British comedy.
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In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.
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Fortunately, I've never had to be too critical of my own work, because the world is critical enough.
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I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's as an ambassador. You realize the more you travel that you are a cultural ambassador for your own country. You never become more patriotic than you do living abroad.
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There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment.
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The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.
