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Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: president
Nationality: american
Birth: August 27, 1908 - January 22, 1973

Topics

Excellence Destiny Believe Generation

I am pretty controlled I have to say.

Jennifer Aniston

I Am Say Pretty Controlled Am

I don't know what Swiss musicians need to do to be heard beyond the borders of their own country. It was always clear to me that I belong everywhere, that music belongs everywhere. It simply never occurred to me that I had to limit myself to a country.

Music Myself Me Musicians Country

I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.

Professional My Own Whatever Own

Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it!

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Death Welcome Inevitable Know Now

Time off from the news is always something I welcome.

Time Welcome News Always Something

There is nothing, not a thing, like the process of creating a character for the stage - you can't get it anywhere else. Unless you're totally method and spend six months living your life like your character for a film, the theater is the place to get that intense acting experience.

Jonny Lee Miller

Life Character Experience You Acting

The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it. It's kind of this terrible spiral: Since they're not so good at it they do less of it, get worse at it, do less of it. And it's really what I discovered five, six years ago when I started the 'Guys Read' thing.

Good Reading Problem Kind Years Big

If nobody needs me - and usually, these days, they don't - I'll fall asleep until around midnight. Then I go upstairs and work until 4 A.M., and that's when I go back to bed for good. It suits me.

Work Good Me Suits Fall Back

There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems, as it was in the Irish Revolution. It's great to have great songs, because people need something to sing when they are marching. That's OK, but it should be on the side. It's not the ultimate thing.

Great Time People Revolution Crisis

There is always pressure playing cornerback. It's just a position where you're always in the spotlight.

Chris Harris, Jr.

Pressure You Always Spotlight Where

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

Facts You Never Survey Out Check

The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart. The task is comparable to observing a match flame at the distance of Pluto. The WISE satellite, a hi-tech, space-based infrared telescope especially suited for such work, has found only a few.

Work Heart Wise Small Flame Finding

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