Adam Johnson Quotes

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

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• I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

  

  Ed Sheeran
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• People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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• Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
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• When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.

  

  Ralph Baer
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• People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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• People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

  

  Gay Talese
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• People believe what they want to believe.

  

  Tab Hunter
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• People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.

  

  T-Pain
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• I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.

  

  Cam
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• The years teach much which the days never know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• You know in the West they support realistic forces.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
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• A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

  

  Barbara Smith
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• For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.

  

  Olivia Colman
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• We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
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• All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

  J. Cole
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• I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.

  

  Zack Greinke
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  • Real
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• Whatever you want, you have the power to attain it. The man or woman who calmly and matter-of-factly accepts this pronouncement at face value will soon find himself working magical accomplishments far beyond that which he previously dreamed possible.

  

  Vernon Howard
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• I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

  

  Eric Davis
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• It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?

  

  Laura Wade
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• Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.

  

  Jon Krakauer
  • Heaven
  • Project
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• I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

  

  Adam Johnson
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