Chris Johnson Quotes
You've only got one life and you have to live it. Take every single lesson as a learning one.
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.
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It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?
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I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life.
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Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
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You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on.
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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
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I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
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You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.
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Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.
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I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.
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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
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I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.
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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
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He's the reason why I write music. If he's reading this - James Taylor, I'd love to work with you! My mom would put headphones on her belly before I was born, so I've been listening to him literally all of my life. When my dad played me 'Walking Man,' I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away.
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Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.
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The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
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I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.
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Through sites like MySpace, people coalesce into interest groups, and this gives me the opportunity to do vast mailshots to people who like similar things.
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Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.
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You've only got one life and you have to live it. Take every single lesson as a learning one.
