Gary Johnson Quotes
We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
Quotes to Explore
-
We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
-
Tell the truth.
-
I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
-
I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.
-
I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
-
That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
-
I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
-
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
-
Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
-
If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
-
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
-
I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
-
Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
-
I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
-
I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
-
Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
-
I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
-
If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
-
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
-
In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority.
-
I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
-
We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.
-
We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
