Alan Johnson Quotes
The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.
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The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.
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The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50 years. Those savings have extended the Medicare trust fund by 11 years. So we've got a baseline of facts.So it is true theoretically that all that progress can be undone, and suddenly 20 million people or more don't have health insurance.
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What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.
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I grew up in a dysfunctional family.
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I've always appreciated directors but I have a newfound appreciation for them and producers and everyone who does what they do that actors don't see. When you have one job, that's all you care about, that's all you're supposed to focus on. But focusing on so many different things, I was introduced to how hard everyone else works too.
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The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.
