Brian Francis Johnson Quotes
If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.
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People presume we've been somehow monitoring the entire sky at all frequencies, all the time, but we haven't yet been able to do any of those things. The fact is, all the SETI efforts to date have only closely examined a couple thousand nearby stars, and we're only just now learning which of those might have promising planets.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.
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If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.
