Alan Johnson Quotes
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
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I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.
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That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.
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When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
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I signed their paper. It was a contract obligating me to spend six weeks doing farmwork in the north of Germany. If I didn’t show up at the train station tomorrow, the paper said, I would be treated as a wanted criminal and hunted down without mercy.
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The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.
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The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.
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Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.
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You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.
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We're often kind and benevolent to senior executives who fail.
