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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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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I had an entrepreneurial spirit and started branching out from there.
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You go see a great production of 'Romeo and Juliet,' where those kids are full of life and love, you hope and forget.
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There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.
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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
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What we shouldn't be doing is borrowing money to give benefits to the most fortunate, to put the burden and pull the rug out of those who struggle the most.
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I was a foreign correspondent in Berlin in the mid-'90s.
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Don't try to be anyone else. Don't try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths.
