Johnson Quotes - Page 6

• Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted to be an astronaut. Combined with my love for Navy history and World War II flight ops, and unsatisfying degrees in college and law school, I joined the Navy and became a naval aviator.

  Pete Olson

  Growing Up, War, Moving

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• Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpet our nation's capital, Lady Bird Johnson will be remembered. Only Lady Bird Johnson could, with her vision of a beautiful America, lay claim to spring as her memorial.

  David Mixner

  Beautiful, Country, Spring

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• Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis.

  David Maraniss

  Cuban Missile Crisis, October, Speak

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• There's things Calvin Johnson does that nobody else can do. He's obviously huge, his physical attributes outweigh just about everyone in the league. But on top of that, he still has the ability to learn. He's like a sponge and soaks up anything that can help him as an athlete, as a person. On top of that, he's not soft. He catches the ball and tries to get upfield to score. He doesn't slide or go out of bounds. That's a rare find in the NFL.

  Nate Burleson

  Athlete, Nfl, League

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• Look at what I am proposing, and we [wih Bernie Sanders] have a vigorous agreement here. We both want to reign in the excesses of Wall Street. I also want to reign in the excesses of Johnson Controls that we bailed out when they were an autoparts company, and we saved the auto industry, and now they want to avoid paying taxes.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, Agreement, Want

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think Kirk Johnson is a more exciting fighter than Chris Byrd. A lot of people agree with me when it comes to that.

  Lennox Lewis

  Thinking, People, Fighter

  Lennox Lewis during National Conference Call, www.boxinginsider.com. April 24, 2003.

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• [Kirk] Johnson throws some heavy punches and is a knockout fighter. This is what people want to see. They want to see a fight, they want to see punches and they want to see action.

  Lennox Lewis

  Fighting, People, Want

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Back in the day however, careers were strictly built on competitions, just like surfing, though surfing is changing too so you can free surf and still get paid. So I think that rivalry was really because of the fans and the media who built it up, but it did bring something exciting about the sport, just like in any sport, whether it's Larry Bird or Magic Johnson, I think it just made skating that much more exciting.

  Christian Hosoi

  Sports, Thinking, Media

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I'm so moved to hear Celia Johnson again, so lovely.

  Maggie Smith

  Lovely, Celia, Moved

  "Maggie Smith On The Pressures Of Acting: 'You Want So Much To Get It Right'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.

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• There are very few films that I've ever seen in my life that would be as silent or vacant as something like Jeremiah Johnson, and that to me was unbelievably captivating. You can see the same about [The Outlaw] Josey Wales: there's very little dialogue, and yet it contains such a deep, rich story. I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Littles, Would Be, Stories

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• I'd put the most money on Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson - and not just because we'll probably still be waiting for the final volume in 2017.

  David Edelstein

  Waiting, Finals, Biographies

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Even Boris Johnson doesn't think there's going to be a United States of Europe. ​And I think there's a real question here that you're being asked to make a decision that's irreversible we cant change it, we wake up on Friday and we don't like it, and we're being sold it on a lie because they lied about the cost of Europe, they lied about Turkey's entrance to Europe, they lied about the European army because we've got a veto for that they put that in their leaflets and they've lied about this here tonight too and its not good enough you deserve the truth you deserve the truth.

  Ruth Davidson

  Friday, Real, Lying

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].

  Ken Livingstone

  War, Referendums, Dave

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I was in Hollis' band for eight years, playing drums. At one time we had Barry Beckett, Jimmy Johnson, David Hood - everybody but Roger Hawkins. We had a hell of a band.

  Donnie Fritts

  Eight, Years, Band

  "The Soulful DNA of Country Songwriter Donnie Fritts". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. October 8, 2015.

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• It is rare in a working environment that someone says, ‘Johnson, I need a market analysis by Friday, but before that, I need a compelling account of your childhood.'

  David Coleman

  Friday, Childhood, Needs

  "Inside the Mammoth Backlash to Common Core" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. September 2014.

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• He [Lyndon Johnson] hated the war. He hated having anybody put in harm away. But he believed that what we were doing is what we had to do for our commitments with SEATO, for many reasons. And he was carrying forth a policy that he had inherited. And he tried and got us to the peace table in 1968.

  Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

  War, Commitment, Tables

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• Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Great Men

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch out a little bit to get a sense of the world that he might be coming into, in the '30s when jazz was changing.

  Ed Speleers

  World, Branches, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell is a great writer and an ordinary man; and they are two of a kind, abysmal melancholics and compulsive socializers, afraid of solitude and afraid of death and dissolution, victims of themselves, meant for each other, needing each other, needing evidence and arguments (Boswell is a lawyer, Johnson magisterially dictates to him some of his briefs), making beautiful models of rational discourse out of the useful substance of all they know.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Friendship, Beautiful, Wise

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• Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world ofoccasions if nothing else) and therefore no monument at all but all that can be saved of a man alive in the pages of a book.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Book, Men, Talking

  Marvin Mudrick (1979). “Books are Not Life, But Then, what Is?”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)

  Tobias Smollett

  Literature

  Letter to John Wilkes, 16 Mar. 1759

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• Louis 'Thunder Thumbs' Johnson was one of the greatest bass players to ever pick up the instrument, as a member of the Brothers Johnson, we shared decades of magical times working together in the studio and touring the world. From my albums 'Body Heat' and 'Mellow Madness,' to their platinum albums 'Look Out for #1,' 'Right On Time,' 'Blam' and 'Light Up the Night,' which I produced, to Michael's solo debut 'Off the Wall,' I considered Louis a core member of my production team. He was a dear and beloved friend and brother, and I will miss his presence and joy of life every day.

  Quincy Jones

  Life, Brother, Wall

  FaceBook post by Quincy Jones from May 22, 2015

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• The best compliment I've gotten was being compared to Randy Johnson. We're both hard-throwing.

  Jennie Finch

  Compliment, Throwing, Randy

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• Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded by comparison: this paradox fuels equal parts of comedy and pathos. Never sentimental, at once corrosive and elegiac, House Mother Normal is a remarkable achievement.

  James Marcus

  Mother, Memories, Voice

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• You weren't supposed to hear Elvis Presley. You weren't supposed to hear Jerry Lee Lewis. You weren't supposed to hear Robert Johnson. You weren't supposed to hear Hank Williams. And they told the story of the secret America.

  Bruce Springsteen

  America, Secret, Stories

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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