Calvin Johnson Quotes
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
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I really try to get eight hours of sleep, and I really try not to go out after a Tuesday or Friday night show because I know I have a two-show day the following day.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
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I think if I'd ever had any skeletons in the closet, they'd have been out a long time ago.
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Although I have won many times now, each time when I have a lead, I start to think about winning. It's very difficult not to think about winning. Every time, there are new challenges. Every time, there are new issues to overcome.
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My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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I feel like the first record was really finding my feet, figuring out what music I wanted to make... Now that I've done that, I feel like I've got a much clearer idea of what I want to sound like and what I want to discover. It's exciting.
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There is no sense in getting excited by market cap because it is a tool.
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You're pulling 4-5G for a lot of the corners around the lap. We build up lactic acid because there are a lot of vibrations in the car, and you have to have strong legs to hit the brake pedal. We need to be fit to do every lap at 100%.
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Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits, huffing and puffing along the mountain ranges of epic narrative arcs prepared for us by the Infinite Word Himself.
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“I hate your future wife," she said simply. At the moment, I'm not much in charity with her myself.
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Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!
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I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way.
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Everybody has their struggles.
