Tim Johnson (Timothy Peter Johnson) Quotes
I consider failures to be the compost that feeds the better and best that is on its way.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.
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I'm curvy.
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I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.
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I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.
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If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.
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Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.
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I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.
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Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
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All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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I consider failures to be the compost that feeds the better and best that is on its way.
