Tim Johnson (Timothy Peter Johnson) Quotes
Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
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With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.
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Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.
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My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.
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Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.
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If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn’t sufficiently occupied.
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'Technology is dangerous.''How do you mean?''It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.'
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So it's gonna be foreverOr it's gonna go down in flames.You can tell me when it's overIf the high was worth the pain.Got a long list of ex-lovers,They'll tell you I'm insane.'Cause you know I love the players,And you love the game.
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People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.
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The song is based on a lot of observation and a lot of speculation. But in sort of a pointed way its kind of about Madonna...I think it was a particular time where I was being bombarded with her image on TV and in magazines and her whole schtick kind of speaks to me in that way...like she's going through some sort of problem. It seems she's getting a bit desperate.
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I was trying to hold up a mirror to this country, to reflect the past years or so, and the varying degrees in which we've been affected by the war(s) that doesn't seem to end. And we've all been affected somehow, even if we have no connection to the military, even if we don't know anyone who's killed or been killed. No one escapes something so large.
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How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
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All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.
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Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.
