Hank Johnson Quotes
I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
 
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	The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.   
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	I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.   
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	Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.   
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	Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.   
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	I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.   
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	I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.   
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	People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids. Gail Devers
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	Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.   
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	I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.   
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	Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.   
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	I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.   
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	I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.   
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	I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.   
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	I love listening to pop radio.   
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	I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.   
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	Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.   
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	The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.   
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	You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song and the lyrical significance of the scene you are in.   
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	Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first learn to liberate their own minds from apathy and fear.   
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	Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water - water in the great looming form of Lake Pontchartrain, water cutting through in tributaries, water flowing beside a long stretch of highway, water just - everywhere.   
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	My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.   
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	The big problem retailers are facing is the world is moving to mobile.   
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	The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.   
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	I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					