Angela Johnson Quotes
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.
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When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.
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I think that, for so long, there was only one type of actor, and now you see these different colors, different people, different shapes and different sizes. It just makes it more interesting.
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Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'
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Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.
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I'm very happy because I won a lot. I've won races and lived in a world that just gave me joy, so I remember it very positively.
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My life is like tofu—it's what gets added that makes it interesting.
