Iris Johansen Quotes
Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems.

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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.
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Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
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The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was off that night, and his replacement was the cab driver who dropped you off at the theater.
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They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else drown it out at the time?
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I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up that really had a powerful influence on the way they view the purpose of life. The experiences that really shaped their values - my wife and I have no memory of those experiences!
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One of the most powerful scientific tools ever invented is the telephone.
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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street.
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Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems.