Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
Johnson: What do you think about this Vietnam thing? I’d like to hear you talk a little bit.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
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I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there's all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there's 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.
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Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.
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Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
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Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
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I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.
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I think the bottom line for Oregonians is that cleaner fuels mean cleaner air, and we need that, and we want that.
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The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.
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It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
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The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
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The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
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What people don't realize is that Tinder built a brand on more than the experience of the swipe.
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He wants to dream like a young manWith the wisdom of an old man.He wants his home and security,He wants to live like a sailor at sea.Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall?You realize you just can't have it all.
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Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human experience, and not obscurely about what will prove to be received opinion or cliche once the reader figures out your stylistic conceit. There's all the difference in the world between mystery and mystification.
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I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.
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Johnson: What do you think about this Vietnam thing? I’d like to hear you talk a little bit.
