Calvin Johnson Quotes
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
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I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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I had friends who were jocks or whatever... Then, around 12 or 13, kids get cliquish and cruel, and that disgusted me. It seemed a reprehensible use of one's arbitrary social status. So I got really aggressive about it and became more of a weird kid.
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It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.
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Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
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Just try to add more things to my game each year.
