Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Quotes
We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.
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In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.
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. . . your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether to saturate your memories with pain or with perspective. Forgetting is not an option. I tell you the truth now: Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not a part of the plan.
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The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.
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Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?
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Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.
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God determines how fast you're going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.
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Our actions determine our dispositions.
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Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm really calm and collected. Even though I'm fighting, I'm calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can't fight at the highest level of your ability.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.
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The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
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There is no illusion great than fear.
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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Every perception of colour is an illusion.. ..we do not see colours as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.
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Leave no stone unturned.
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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
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I'm a huge Luc Besson fan. The Fifth Element, I just loved that movie. Luc cast me to play a small part in it, and so I did, because I love all his movies actually - The Big Blue, La Femme Nikita, Léon: The Professional. His movies are so wonderful. It's just fun to be in it and for it to be a sci-fi movie.
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We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.
