Zach Johnson Quotes
The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I am a contrarian.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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To eliminate sex from a book is to eliminate the great creative force in the world. Out of the sexual instinct rises all the art, you know. … No eunuch ever wrote a book.
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Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band.
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In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.
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You don’t get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn’t shout “Irish Power”, “Jew Power”, [or] “Italian Power”. They kept their mouths shut and took over the police department of New York City, and the mayorship of Boston.
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There's different ways to approach music for sleeping. Things like white noise are functional, like a lullaby. This is more like an inquiry, a question about how music and sleep fit together.
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The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.
