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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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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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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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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Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
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I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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I have produced all kinds of music because I love all kinds of music.
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Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.
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They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
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We're often kind and benevolent to senior executives who fail.
