Calvin Johnson Quotes
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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Part of what makes Minneapolis such a vibrant place to live and work is that we have active residents of all ages.
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I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.
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You know, I'm one of millions of undocumented people in this country who are living kind of under the shadows. And in many ways, coming out, it was my way of - at the end of the day, I think we have to tell the truth about this immigration system. And because of that, I had to tell the truth about myself.
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It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.
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I put up some great numbers.
