Calvin Johnson Quotes
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.
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Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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'Here's my man! It doesn't have to stay out and party with his guys!' 'Here, let me see that...It doesn't seem to be able to pick up the fucking check, does it?'
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I would want to bring up my children. Therefore, I have no dream to make my mark. Instead, I enjoy economic freedom my hard work has given me. It means that I can give my children the best start in life.
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I like to dress up every now and then.
