Mike Johanns Quotes
Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.
 
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	I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.   
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	I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.   
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	It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.   
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	I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.   
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	I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.   
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	First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.   
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	I definitely have the screenwriting itch.   
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	Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.   
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	The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.   
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	Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.   
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	Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.   
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	I am a feminist - I just think the label reflects my beliefs - but, you know, we say 'Rookie' is a website for teenage girls, not a feminist website for teenage girls. That's not because I'm not proud to call myself a feminist, but when you're calling attention to a project, you can very easily be pigeonholed by choosing certain identifiers.   
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	If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.   
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	In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.   
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	Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.   
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	'Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print;A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.   
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	Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market.   
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	I enjoy a good reasoned argument. I love the power of logic.   
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	Growing up in Cleveland, the first time I went to a WWE event, Cleveland didn't even have an arena. The Cavaliers were playing at the Richfield Coliseum. I would go out there.   
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	What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?   
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	The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.   
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	I dress to make myself comfortable. I really do have a problem with it. . . it's just not right.   
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	Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					