Angela Johnson Quotes
I say, “I hate this ‘keepin’ it real’ stuff. What’s it all about, anyway? Real is what is. If you have to keep something the way it is, then it’s not going with the natural flow. That’s lying. I mean, if you can’t change because you think this is the way it always was and anything else would be phony, that’s stupid.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.
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I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head of the colony, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, instantly made conditions at the camp unbearable.
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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I couldn't change anything without changing the end position, and I'm perfectly happy now. So whatever I feel in some sense may have been a mistake in the past is, in another sense, not a mistake, because it's left me here.
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Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.
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I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.
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I say, “I hate this ‘keepin’ it real’ stuff. What’s it all about, anyway? Real is what is. If you have to keep something the way it is, then it’s not going with the natural flow. That’s lying. I mean, if you can’t change because you think this is the way it always was and anything else would be phony, that’s stupid.
