Wendell Johnson Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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My dad is afraid of my laugh.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless.
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Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.
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I guess you could say they consulted with us, but it wasn't like a friendly exchange. We got a cease-and-desist letter from them.
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
