Gary Johnson Quotes
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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.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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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.
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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.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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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.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
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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.
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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.
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
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Doing 'Kingsman' is such hard work. It's so physical and demanding.
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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.
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Everyone has the right to their lives and to look the way they want to! Tomorrow I can put on 25 kilos... it's my choice, my body!
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I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.
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I couldn't comprehend a 35-year-old woman gravitating toward a 70-year-old man.
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Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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All-time favorite workout is basketball. It's very hard to do basketball training, though, but it's my favorite.
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Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.
