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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I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
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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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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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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've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.
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I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.
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But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism.
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I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
