Rafer Johnson Quotes
I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
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I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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I'm moving forward to do the best.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.
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You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That's inflation.
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Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.
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I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
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Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.
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I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
