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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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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I'm very involved in Shred, constantly checking in on something. It takes a lot of time. But it has let me leverage who I am as an athlete into a product.
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when asked about abortion in cases of rape Um. Well, I think that's really sad, but everything happens for a reason. I don't know how that would be a reason. I guess I haven't been in that position, so I wouldn't be able to judge that.
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There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, because it's the hot thing to do.
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Johnson: What do you think about this Vietnam thing? I’d like to hear you talk a little bit.
