Calvin Johnson Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
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As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave in the morning any longer. It is the same thing for yoga.
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Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.
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I am very strong. When you have children, you have to be.
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By the time I reached the sixth form at my local grammar school, my father would glower at me every time I passed him with a stack of books under my arm, warning me there was no money to go to university.
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Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.
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I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.
