Antony Johnston Quotes
Every Shania Twain interview ends with someone asking, 'Which Beatles album have you always wanted to cover, given the chance?'
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
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I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
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The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
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I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
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There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
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Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
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I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.
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I've always felt that my life's been at the right place at the right time; I feel like there's been some really dull moments, really high moments, really low moments, but it's always felt like everything's moved in the right direction; it always feels great, and everything feels right.
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For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.
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Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.
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It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.
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I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.
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It seems like cloud cuckoo land... If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the pound sterling – no! … We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed on us.
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War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops.
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I find it's better to focus on what's in front of you and to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
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We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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Every Shania Twain interview ends with someone asking, 'Which Beatles album have you always wanted to cover, given the chance?'
