Gary Johnson Quotes
Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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I don't speak Spanish. I understand enough of it, having spent some time running Telemundo, and I put in a lot of time in Spain during the Barcelona Olympics. But I don't pretend to speak Spanish, and I don't want anyone to think that I can.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
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If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.
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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.
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In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.
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I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.
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I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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I wish I could pick you up sometimes, turn you upside down, shake all the bad things out of your head, and put you back up the right way again.
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Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.
