Michael Johnson Quotes

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

Michael Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 13, 1967

Topics

GoldPressureCareerProfessional

We move the cows every day to a new spot which allows the grass time to recuperate and go through its what I call 'the teenage growth spurt.'

Joel Salatin

GrowthTimeDayEvery DayGoNew

I'm such a huge sports video game fan. These games are getting so realistic, it's amazing.

Mehcad Brooks

SportsAmazingGameGamesRealistic

Provocations are like a Molotov cocktail. They only work one time out of ten, but when it works, it can also be dangerous for the arm that is throwing it. It's the price that has to be paid.

Maurizio Cattelan

WorkTimeDangerousPriceCocktail

A lot of people don't believe there's evil. If there's good in this world, then you're being intellectually dishonest, if you believe there's a good power, you've also got to believe there's an evil power, too. There are physical laws that are in place.

Si Robertson

GoodPowerPeopleEvilWorldYou

I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get it into. For as long as I'm alive, I'll still be its interpreter.

Roy Harper

BestLegacyUniverseLongI CanGet

The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true.

Michelle Alexander

TrueCrimeDrivenGreatestMyth

In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.

Michael Steinhardt

IgnorancePeopleAmericaHeritage

I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don't be crude because you don't know how to do it, because you're not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting.

Louise Wilson

Not PerfectDrawingYouPerfectKnow

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

Chloe Sevigny

LifeTogetherBackGoTouchReal

To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.

Anne Heche

WorkMotherHeartMyselfMeSorry

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.

William Labov

I AmResearchLanguageAmericaNow

When I was a kid, my parents were happy to buy me clothes; they provided for me.

Nick Wooster

HappyParentsMeClothesKidBuy

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