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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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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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.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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One of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade the result of their folly.
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We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.
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I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.
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At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
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There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
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Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.
