Andrew Johns Quotes
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
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I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
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I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.
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If people need to be informed by lines, then there's no reason why the actor is saying the line except for information for the audience; I think there's something wrong.
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I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?
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Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.
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Social networks particularly will tend to converge and consolidate over time, especially because they're inherently governed by network effects. So the bigger ones will just get bigger, their value will multiply exponentially, and the smaller ones will become less and less relevant.
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Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
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When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.
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That's too far ahead, I don't really know if I'll play that long for my club team.
