Lynn Johnston Quotes
People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?
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I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.
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I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.
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When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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I want everybody to run at the same speed as me. But some people are more conscientious, they think more and they plan more. And they're more careful.
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Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
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I'd feel better about myself if I did stomach crunches, but I don't.
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.
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I don't consult anyone - not my mother, not my father, anyone - about my work. And I must add that neither Dad nor Mom interfere in my work.
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People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.
