Mike Johanns Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.
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I can't even remember not wanting to go to film school.
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I'm like Madonna: I keep reinventing myself.
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I can't live without carbs.
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Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.
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Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.
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If you are ever on stage, and it feels as though the audience is not laughing at the right points or are not quite as engaged as you'd hope, you have to remember there is always somebody who might be falling in love with this world and having an epiphany. I was that person.
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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
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What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
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The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.
