Gary Johnson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
-
The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
-
I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
-
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
-
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
-
I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
-
Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
-
It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
-
The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
-
The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
-
The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
-
I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
-
I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
-
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
-
Doing 'Kingsman' is such hard work. It's so physical and demanding.
-
I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
-
I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
-
Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
-
I think people who are not rich can be extremely happy. And I think the chances to be happy in this new world - with many more opportunities to be creative, to be online, to educate yourself - there'll be a lot more chances to be happy. It's not to say everyone will take them, but there will be a lot of new paths to opportunity.
-
The most important thing is family.
-
I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.
-
There's a certain type of theatre that I haven't got any time for at all - established, boring, same-old stuff without any reason or passion. There's quite a lot of it about, and it motivates me to try to do something different, something risky, raw, ugly, and challenging.
-
Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
-
Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.
