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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I had creative control over my character, which means if they wanted me to do something that I didn't agree with, then I wouldn't do it. If it was good for the show, then I had no problem. If it was demeaning to the character and wasn't adding a positive light to the show, then I can guarantee that I wouldn't do it.
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A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art.
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Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it's the rare band that doesn't, like, turn into something else.
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Spirit seeker is someone who remembers there is a power greater than themselves and who is willing to reconnect with it.
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An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.
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Johnson: What do you think about this Vietnam thing? I’d like to hear you talk a little bit.
