Nancy Johnson Quotes
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our projects was collecting snakes and creating an environment for them, so I'm quite familiar with snakes and think they're fantastic creatures.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
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Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
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The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the non-industrialised countries are at best standing still: so the gap between the industrialised countries and the rest is widening every day. On the world scale this is the gap between the rich and the poor.
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Right now, the biggest shared value that I can think of is that you should treat others the way you want to be treated, and just have some good sense about what matters to you.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
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House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.
