Calvin Johnson Quotes
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.
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You have to pretend to be cool, which I never am.
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You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
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Let me talk about what the banks are doing, and I think the banks have been working to make sure that, as much as possible, we move the currency to the smaller areas and to as many set of customers as possible.
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Variation and natural selection would also afford a key to a multitude of geological facts otherwise wholly unaccounted for, as, for example, why there is generally an intimate connection between the living animals and plants of each great division of the globe and the extinct fauna and flora of the post-tertiary or tertiary formations of the same region...
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Retired life's good, man.
