Derrick Johnson Quotes
COVID is impacting the Black community at staggering rates. And we want the full weight of the government engaged in the fight against it.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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'Sicario' was successful, but it was successful because Denis and the producers were, you know, they were very lean. It was very lean filmmaking.
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In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.
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There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.
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I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
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There's a huge impact on national security and intelligence. The new normal is going to be more and more of these hacks, whether it's Target or Home Depot or the Office of Personnel Management or Jennifer Lawrence's nude photos.
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Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
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A lot of times, you're interacting with people for whom you're one of the very few veterans that they've met or had a lot of interactions with, and there's a temptation for you to feel like you can pontificate about what the experience was or what it meant, and that leads to a lot of nonsense.
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All media is moving, at light speed, toward development through viral channels.
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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. s
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I talk with countries, whether it's the Arab states or in the Middle East, and they talk about how they're glad to see us fighting against Iran. I talk with different countries in reference to Syria, and we talk about how we can get the Iranian influence out. We're talking about North Korea and what we need to do and the pressure we need to put on China. They're happy that we're finally beating up on Russia for what they've done in the Ukraine.
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I'm very simple. I have to be. I'm not very smart. I start broad, then go deep where I'm interested.
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COVID is impacting the Black community at staggering rates. And we want the full weight of the government engaged in the fight against it.
