Charles R. Johnson Quotes
You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.... Your every past action and thought have made you what you are.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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On 'Rogue One,' we had these sets with tiny little buttons that would light up when you pressed them, and screens full of graphics, and it really felt like you were driving a spaceship. The level of detail; you'll be two meters away from where the action is, but there'll be a little detail there just in case the camera catches it.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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But in action, one defies one's character.
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Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
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Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.
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Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.
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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
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In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
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'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.
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An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the past that is no longer discernible, a fact that has left no footprints at all in the world today.
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Every country and every culture has traditions that are unique and help make that country what it is. But just because something is a part of your past doesn’t make it right. It doesn’t mean that it defines your future. ... Just because something is a tradition doesn’t make it right.
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Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
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Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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This duality can be pursued further and is related to a duality between past and future and the notions of control and knowledge. Thus we may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it.
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I have done so many love scenes in the past that I have learned how to pull off a sexy smoulder on the dance floor.
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Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.
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Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.
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Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
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You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.... Your every past action and thought have made you what you are.
