Bret Anthony Johnston Quotes
Oh, the mystery of what your children know, the scope and terrifying beauty of their perception.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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Bullies always have another target.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.
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All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.
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I've been going to 'Supernatural' conventions, so they tend to be big 'Lost' fans and big 'Supernatural' fans, but it's usually for both of those. Walking on the street, people are really, really into 'Lost.' But on the conventions circuit, it's Lucifer.
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Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.
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At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.
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I'm telling you right now, we're going to write fairer rules for the middle class and we are going to raise taxes on the middle class!
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Oh, the mystery of what your children know, the scope and terrifying beauty of their perception.
