George Johnson Quotes
Even if you invoke vast geologic time, the series of fortuitous mutations leading to an eye, a kidney, or a brain seem too good to be true.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.
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We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.
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After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.
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Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.
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Any skills that I have, I couldn't really make money with them. I would like to think that maybe I would be doing something in psychology or something of that nature because I love that vein of medicine - the getting down and getting nitty-gritty.
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I am a babe for a living.
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For being a young guy, I'm articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I've been able to do that since I was young. I don't think that has to do too much with schooling, it has more to do with the people I was raised around, my parents. I have respect for adults.
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You can't let challenges argue you out of doing what you know is the right thing.
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I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
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I love to pitch so much.
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We were high above fields, and there far, far below, was a small shadow as of a great bird tearing along the neatly marked off fields. It gave me the most tremendous shock to realize for the first time the terrific speed we were going at and that that shadow meant us - us, like a mirror! That 'bird' - it was us.
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I will never, ever forget the electricity I felt the first time I listened to the 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - and many times since.
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What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.
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You set something in modern-day Texas, which is so identifiable as the Old West, and everyone's wearing guns, so it looks like it's going to be, by default, partially considered a western.
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Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.
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Even if you invoke vast geologic time, the series of fortuitous mutations leading to an eye, a kidney, or a brain seem too good to be true.
