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'm not always in that good with middle-aged heterosexual men.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
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I like wearing good clothes. Some of my friends who are into making clothes told me since I was already playing with my own brand of bat sticker, I should make a foray in fashion. The idea has worked very well.
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A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.
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I like to dress up every now and then.
