Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

It is empty to plead that the solution to the dilemmas of the present rests on the hands of the clock. The solution is in our hands. Unless we are willing to yield up our destiny of greatness among the civilizations of history, Americans - white and Negro together - must be about the business of resolving the challenge which confronts us now.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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• There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Like
  • Radical
  • Critic

• If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • End
  • Treat

• I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • World
  • Country
  • Remember

• A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Just
  • News
  • Entertainment

• The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Up
  • Giving

• In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Feel
  • Talking
  • Colleagues

• If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Man
  • Better

• Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Broken
  • Stand
  • Would

• I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.

  

  Laura Linney
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• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Society
  • Source
  • Stupidity

• My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Team
  • Language
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• I always have bananas with me for energy.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Bananas

• 'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.

  

  Ram Charan
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  • Sure
  • Glued

• My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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  • Parents
  • Car

• Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Time
  • Appreciate

• I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Why
  • Way
  • Like

• It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Laughter

• I think I believe a little bit in the power of people to really cast a bad energy on you if they want to. If the bad mojo wants to come your way, look out.

  

  Dileep Rao
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Writing
  • Change
  • Challenge

• I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Power
  • Idiot
  • Objects

• One of the things that makes me most happy about music is that I can look at a picture and see Da Brat, Missy, Lil Kim, Left Eye, and I know Aaliyah is a singer, but to see them all in one photo together hugging and laughing and really having genuine love for each other... I want to feel that with my hip hop sisters.

  

  Niatia Jessica Kirkland
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• People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm not at all. You've got the Internet and music - you put them together, and people hear your music.

  

  Courtney Barnett
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• It is empty to plead that the solution to the dilemmas of the present rests on the hands of the clock. The solution is in our hands. Unless we are willing to yield up our destiny of greatness among the civilizations of history, Americans - white and Negro together - must be about the business of resolving the challenge which confronts us now.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
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