Johnson Quotes - Page 2

• Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the battalion commander or Gen. William Westmoreland or President Lyndon Johnson. If you are a squad leader, answer questions about what you know and do.

  Hal Moore

  Military, Squad, Leader

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• There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early in life, mainly by blacks like my most powerful mentor, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson of Lynchburg, Virginia. They insisted that I be unfailingly polite on the court, unfalteringly calm and detached, so that whites could never accuse me of meanness. I learned well. I look at photographs of the skinny, frail, little black boy that I was in the early 1950s, and I see that I was my tennis racquet and my tennis racquet was me. It was my rod and my staff.

  Arthur Ashe

  Powerful, Boys, Virginia

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• Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

  Lord Byron

  Morality, Rough, Moralist

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.279, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Kids, Defense

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.98, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

  Salman Rushdie

  War, Vietnam

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• The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way. Dakota Johnson, who plays the virgin English-literature major Anastasia Steele, and Jamie Dornan, who plays Christian Grey, the wildly rich and sexually particular business titan who wants Miss Steele in his playroom, are exceedingly attractive actors with enviably supple bodies well suited to nakedness. And really, under the circumstances, movable parts matter more than acting skills.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum

  Christian, Book, Play

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• My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

  Michael Caine

  Nice, Hero, Dark

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• But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

  David Bowie

  Thinking, Guy, Legacy

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Interview, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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• The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Player, Best Players

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• I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Smell

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• Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Powerful, Men, Broken

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• I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.

  Stephen Ambrose

  President, Andrew, Worst

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• I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.

  Erich Leinsdorf

  Friendly, Lyndon B Johnson, Young

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• I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

  Anushka Sharma

  Beach, Boys, Rocks

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• Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don't care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the tortuous, enraging story of how Congress enacted a law that instead of protecting against discrimination has turned 'the disabled' into a political punching bag.

  William Greider

  Rights, Law, People

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• The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don’t have what we have on Sunset Blvd. for no reason. They are rebelling against something. There are so many things burning the people of this country, particularly mothers. They feel they are going to raise sons—and I know what it's like, and you have children of your own, Mrs. Johnson—we raise children and send them to war.

  Eartha Kitt

  Mother, Country, Children

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• Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds us why we watch them and make them, a beautifully told story that deserves to be not only remembered, but acknowledged for its writing.

  Jason Reitman

  Writing, Thought Provoking, Watches

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• I wore a pink Betsey Johnson dress to my prom, and I pretty much looked like a pink cupcake. I loved that dress!

  Sarah Gadon

  Cupcakes, Dresses, Prom

  "You're Gonna Love These Girls: Meet Mae Whitman, Santigold, Jane Levy, Sarah Gadon and the Cast of Damsels in Distress!", www.glamour.com. March 4, 2012.

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• Magic Johnson links his HIV and treatment to health care as though ObamaCare would provide the same level of care that a mega rich celebrity would get. Is he going to dump his coverage? Is he going to dump it and sign up for ObamaCare?

  Greg Gutfeld

  Obamacare, Magic, Links

  "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.

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• One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic.

  Robert Dallek

  Father, Writing, Character

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• Ahmed Johnson came from a neighborhood where the most common words heard was, You have the right to remain silent.

  Jerry Lawler

  Common, Silent, Neighborhood

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• When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.

  Erich Leinsdorf

  Party, Boston, Symphony

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• Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Light, Ideas

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• I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Team, Squad, People

  "Jonny Wilkinson announces his retirement from international rugby" by Paul Rees, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.

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• During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Men

  "Sunday Observer; Brass Hat In Hand" by Russell Baker, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 1983.

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