Andrew Johnson Quotes
I must be permitted to say that I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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I'm in a really nice position because I can be selective with the modeling jobs that I do and just work with brands I'm passionate about. The two worlds balance out nicely for me because modeling is so social - it has travel, you meet people, it's extroverted. Whereas painting is very solitary - when I paint, I'm kind of in my own world.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'
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All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.
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I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.
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The way that we are going to solve social problems is by working with multiple different types of investing.
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I must be permitted to say that I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
