Calvin Johnson Quotes
I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
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As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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I'm a very private person.
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For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.
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She smiled. 'I wouldn’t mind. Is that a difference between men and women or between you and me?''I think it’s a difference between you and merely sane people.'
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
