Martin Johnson Quotes
After talking to my family and friends and after a lot of thought, I have decided to retire from international rugby with immediate effect
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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A good leader must be fair.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and we travelled down from the Midlands for the last night of the School Proms. We played some pieces from the Harry Potter films, and the violin parts were really hard.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.
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As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
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It's so fantastic that Prince William has championed African wildlife. He's putting his back into it - and one thing the royal family is brilliant at is getting people to cough up.
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After talking to my family and friends and after a lot of thought, I have decided to retire from international rugby with immediate effect
