Chris Johnson Quotes
Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.
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I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
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I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
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They used to have clauses and contracts where you can't get bad publicity or you'd get fired. But now bad publicity is good publicity. I just keep working and don't think about it much.
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As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae and Nina Simone. I loved that they each covered the same songs and interpreted them totally differently. I thought that was so cool. They could each paint their own picture of that moment.
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Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the land; I'm the fastest man in mixed martial arts.
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I have the same skin-care routine morning and night, although I'm not one of those people who always uses the same products. My skin changes with the weather.
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Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.
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I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day.
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Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.
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Deep down, you know what you want, and you should go for it.
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Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.
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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
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A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.
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We are focused on Main Street, on supporting economic conditions - plentiful jobs and stable prices - that help all Americans.
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One of the things I've learned over the years is that you only do what you can do as an actor. You do the best job you can, but you have no control over so many elements that are going to determine the outcome of that film. I never pay attention to what happens after.
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I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset.
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Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.
