Chalene Johnson Quotes
Ask yourself every couple of minutes, 'Can I go harder? Can I do more?' You've got so much power. Show me.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.
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I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.
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I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.
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I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.
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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
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I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
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When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.
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It's presumptuous for us to think we are the only beings in the cosmos.
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It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.
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Every shot makes someone happy.
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One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.
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When people think of me initially, they remember me as 'Akeelah.' Sometimes it can be frustrating to be remembered at an age that you've outgrown.
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I don't fetishize objects.
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The idea of losing your best friend, basically, is the worst thing in world.
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For me, working in the fashion industry is about getting to meet the minds behind the brands. Sure, there are nice dinners, events and shows - even the occasional freebie - but the best part is getting to sit down with and talk to people that have done great things. You quickly realize that no matter who you're talking to, how famous, brilliant or wealthy they are, they are just "people."
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I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.
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Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
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Ask yourself every couple of minutes, 'Can I go harder? Can I do more?' You've got so much power. Show me.
