Charles Foster Johnson Quotes

I seem to vaguely remember a time when America had confidence. And guts. And soldiers fighting a war didn't need to be given "permission" to defend themselves from enemies trying to kill them.

Charles Foster Johnson

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• Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

  

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• Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

  

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• Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.

  

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• I built Kosovo for 10 years.

  

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• I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.

  

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• I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.

  

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• I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it's an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe.

  

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• World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.

  

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• I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.

  

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• I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

  

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• You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.

  

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• I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.

  

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• I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.

  

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• In India, the measure of a singer's freedom is in his own creative personality. He can sing the composer's song as his own, if he has the power creatively to assert himself in his interpretation of the general law of the melody which he is given to interpret.

  

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• While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.

  

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

  

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• I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried.

  

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• I seem to vaguely remember a time when America had confidence. And guts. And soldiers fighting a war didn't need to be given "permission" to defend themselves from enemies trying to kill them.

  

  Charles Foster Johnson
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • War