Chris Johnson Quotes
It feels real good to look at some of the guys who have played before me, then come in and break a record. But records are made to be broken.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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Never give up, and never give in.
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I think that there's the self-imposed pressure to come up with something that's good. For guys like us, that's much more important than any external pressure could really be.
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When you're from another country, you want to spend time with your family. All your family can't come here. All your friends can't come here. You spend so much time here, you want to go there, too.
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What I find is that when young people find a brand they relate to, that they feel speaks to them, they want it in every format they can get.
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Doing a truncated series is like doing a long movie, which allows for a certain artistic freedom. After just 12 episodes, you can take a breather and do other things for your career.
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A lot of nasty things were said about me in my own party about my unwillingness to demand the government shutdown.
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I always wanted to be an actor, so I began to prepare myself for a career in acting. I did a course at Kishore Namit Kapoor's acting school. I was with Shiamak Davar's dance school and also did theatre with Nadira Babbar.
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To be honest, I can't wait to be a dad. I really hope that that's how the cookie crumbles for me.
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A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.
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Hildegard von Bingen conveys spiritual ecstasy, if we're talking of Western music. What bothers me about Western music is that it doesn't have an esoteric dimension in the way the music of the East has, whether it be Byzantine chant, the music of the Sufis, or Hindu music.
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Bitcoin solved the double-spend problem. The key problem was payment confirmation without central clearing. Bitcoin's solution was ingenious but wasteful - it's fairly slow, and you can't put other things on it.
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I reject the notion of football as warfare. Warfare is warfare. We don't need substitutes because we've got the real thing.
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It feels real good to look at some of the guys who have played before me, then come in and break a record. But records are made to be broken.
