Anjelah Johnson Quotes
Don't try to be anyone else. Don't try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths.
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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I would much rather be on the couch all the time. But it turns out, I'm also agreeable. I'll agree to do a lot of things.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
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It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.
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If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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The most important thing to me is how hard we go after the ball and take care of it.
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The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
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When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
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With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.
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She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little of everything without placing anything on a plate, standing in front of the stove, talking to the serving women, who were the only ones with whom she felt comfortable, the ones she got along with best.
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No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.
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Don't try to be anyone else. Don't try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths.
