Calvin Johnson Quotes
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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I was born in Mexico, I grew up in Mexico, and along the way, I learned to love Mexico. I think anyone who has stepped foot on this land - not to mention all Mexican people - will agree that it's not difficult to love Mexico.
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Life is good. I've got a apartment that is paid for with rap money. It's good. It's amazing. It's a blessing. I wake up every day and appreciate how much of a blessing this is getting to do this. But it is important to always stay humble, grounded, focused, and maintain that same ambition you had when you had nothing.
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In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license.
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I have a sentimental feeling for my very first cover I was on - it was 'Bazaar' Magazine.
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I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
