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.
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I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I'm actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I've even sold a few things.
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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 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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I'm a terrible cook, but I make very good lobster salad.
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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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I sensed I was about to take one of the most important risks of my life. But I felt so right that I didn't hesitate.
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I never for a moment considered not doing the show. When I did the show I became very emotional. Some of the lyrics suddenly took on an entirely different meaning. Words like, 'as if we never said goodbye' became more real.
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USA Today doesn't like my 'tone,' humor, sarcasm, etc. etc., which raises the intriguing question of why they hired me to write for them in the first place. Perhaps they thought they were getting Catherine Coulter.
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I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.
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I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.
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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.
