Kevin Maurice Johnson Quotes
My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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A lot of people are quite discouraged by the process of getting healthy because, one, they think they can't afford it, and two, it's daunting. I wanted to start a dialogue. Because you won't be able to even get there until you actually accept yourself and start connecting with yourself.
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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.
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'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is participating in that.
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I don't want to do transformations on people for the sake of a visual. I want to do it because it makes sense.
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My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.
