Brooks Johnson Quotes
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
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When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
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That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.
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I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
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I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.
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I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.
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When you have something good... When you have something good, you don't play with it! You don't take chances with it! You don't take risks with it! When you got something good, you get every single thing you can get out of it! Because guess what? When you take care of something good, that something good takes care of you.
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Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's never been, 'I wonder if I'm funny. I wonder if I can come up with jokes.' It's more, 'What would it be like without the leather suit and the anger?'
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Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.
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The ultimate winners are willing to take ultimate risks.
