Avery Johnson Quotes

Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.

Avery Johnson

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• Conscience is God present in man.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Man
  • Present

• The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Women
  • Children
  • School

• I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Fit

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Work
  • Great
  • Business

• Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Energy
  • Source
  • U.S.

• Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • History
  • Will
  • Happen

• The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Insult

• Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Character

• I really love learning and working long hours.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Long
  • Learning
  • Working

• The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Death

• The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Man
  • Best

• I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Worry
  • Married
  • Terrorism

• I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Done
  • Passion
  • Study

• I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Shows
  • Favorite
  • TV Shows

• To eat passionately is to allow the world in.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • World
  • Eat
  • Allow

• We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Black
  • Kind
  • Million

• The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be able to do it. There seemed to me something deliberately fat-headed in the way she persisted in missing the gist.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She
  • Missing
  • Ears

• We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging. I want to drive around in a Terminator, not the heroine in an E. M. Forster novel.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Good
  • Small
  • Terminator

• If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life. Whether darkness or light comes next, or some kind of event, be it positive, negative, or somewhere in between, expected or unexpected, the biggest surprise of all is to realize you are still you.

  

  P. M. H. Atwater
  • People
  • Life
  • Light

• Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.

  

  Avery Johnson
  • Life
  • Opportunities
  • Measure