Calvin Johnson Quotes

Guys try to take you out of the game if they know they can. So especially if you've got a playmaker, guys on the defense would do that.

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• I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
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• I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

  

  Aaron Levie
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• We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
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• Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

  

  Parker Posey
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• I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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• I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
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• I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

  

  Dan Buettner
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• I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.

  

  Abby Wambach
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• It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

  

  Yael Stone
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• I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

  

  Pat Conroy
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• People love to be told what they know already.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
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• I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
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• You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.

  

  Wallace Shawn
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• I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

  

  J. Cole
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• Know or listen to those who know.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
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• I don't really know that I'm aware of a lot of the inspiration and influence that I'm under, because I didn't have an extensive musically educational upbringing.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• I was never a DC kid - I went through a phase from, like, 11 to 17 where I would try to buy as many Marvel titles as possible. And '2000 AD' was kind of the sort of sci-fi/punk of British comics.

  

  Edgar Wright
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• Melancholic and lovable is the trick, right? You've got to be able to show that you have these feelings. In the game of life, you get these feelings and how you deal with those feelings. What you do when you are trying to deal with a melancholy. A melancholy can be sweet. It's not a mean thing, but it's something that happens in life - like autumn.

  

  Bill Murray
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• I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.

  

  Charles Dance
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• There are so many wonderful, wonderful musicians in the world, I cannot possibly make a distinction between the fact that they might play classical music, or bluegrass, or Irish traditional, or Indian music.

  

  Daniel Hope
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• I want to see women on screen the way I see them in society.

  

  Kathy Bates
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• Guys try to take you out of the game if they know they can. So especially if you've got a playmaker, guys on the defense would do that.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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