Georgia Douglas Johnson Quotes
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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James Garner was a gift to our business and an example of honesty and pure class. It was an honor to have worked beside him and receive his bear hugs every day.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.
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I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
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I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.
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The function of gossip is to create an 'in group' bond by creating an 'out group' enemy.
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Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
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By blood a king, in heart a clown.
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The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.
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Courtney Cox got me this Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer. She wears it, too! If one of us finds a product we love, we buy it for the other.
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For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.
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I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.
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I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.
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Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.
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I don't need headlines. For me, it's the truth that matters.
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ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
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The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool.
