Chalene Johnson Quotes
Get comfortable being uncomfortable, that's how you break the plateau and reach the next level.
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I aspire only to silence.
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I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
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My mind thinks in wrestling. As I'm thinking of things and my mind is being creative, it constantly keeps going back to wrestling. That's my inspiration, and to not be able to express that puts me in a spot where I almost don't know what to do with myself.
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Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It's fairly obvious.
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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
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It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.
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On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.
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As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.
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If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
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I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.
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Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.
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Don't look back and ask, Why? Look ahead and ask, Why not?
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Get comfortable being uncomfortable, that's how you break the plateau and reach the next level.
