Calvin Johnson Quotes
I can have three touchdowns and 200 yards, but if we lose the game, what's it all for?
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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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To ensure stable and sustainable economic growth, world leaders must re-examine the international rules of the monetary game, with advanced and emerging economies alike adopting more mutually beneficial monetary policies.
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I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.
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We always go into a game to win.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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I remember I got an ALMA award for an actor being on three shows simultaneously.
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I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
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One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.
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I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed.
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You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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I collaborate with Tidal because they're for the artists - the up and coming artists and the O.G.s in the game. It's like a home, the only place we have for the artists to find support.
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I don't look at business as a zero-sum game. I don't. I've never seen it play out that way in our industry, and I think you innovate and you add value, deliver value back to customers, and you get value back from the world.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.
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The person that inspired me throughout most of my childhood was Angela Bassett.
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I can have three touchdowns and 200 yards, but if we lose the game, what's it all for?
