Lady Bird Johnson Quotes
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
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I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
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I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
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I get really, really concerned when I see somebody, taking $600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, will not release what they're actually saying. That's concerning.
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I just consider myself lucky that I've been a musician this long and not had to find another job.
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The best way to make money is to have more economic freedom, which is why we are one of the very few large companies that are consistently for it.
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
