Bob Johnson Quotes
I like to think of myself as a pirate and you're just walking that person out on the plank. And then you pull them back when you get what you want. Of course, sometimes, in the beginning, you're going to push a little too far.
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.
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You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it.
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I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.
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My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.
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The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.
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A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.
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We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.
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Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.
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When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, 'Convert this to Android format.'
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I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.'
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I got stuck on the Peter Pan ride when I was nine years old with my dad at Disney World. We got stuck on that part of the ride when you're suspended in the pirate ship above the miniature London, and I was fascinated by the why of it all. 'Why is Peter Peter Pan, why is he in Neverland, how did he learn how to fly, etc.?'
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Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad.
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I had a role in 'DodgeBall,' where I played a pirate who played dodge ball. I'd say 80 to 90 percent of my lines were 'Garrr' or 'Arghh.' And it was all about what the quality of your 'Grr-arr' was.
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It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
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That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.
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I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.
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Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables.
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I like to think of myself as a pirate and you're just walking that person out on the plank. And then you pull them back when you get what you want. Of course, sometimes, in the beginning, you're going to push a little too far.
