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.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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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.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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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.
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I really love learning and working long hours.
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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.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
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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.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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To eat passionately is to allow the world in.
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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.
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Just last week, I was successful in passing two bi-partisan amendments through the House of Representatives that aim to address the even larger problem of cracking down on countries who export the materials to create meth into the United States.
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I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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I have no interest in owning a football club; I don't play golf; I don't like horseracing and I'd rather become a professional bungee jumper than enter politics.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously.
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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.
