Gary Johnson Quotes
I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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Life is like an analogy.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I was in high school in 1953 when the Committee of One Million circulated a petition urging that Red China - one third of the world's population - be excluded from the United Nations. And I remember I refused to sign it, at 14 or 15 years old.
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If there was going to be a pioneer of the plus-size girl of my shape on TV, why not me?
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.
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I like to listen the blues and some classical.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
