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Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Lyndon B. Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Morning History Water River Top

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature Progress Inaction Development

The origin of 'Lenny Letter,' it started because Lena went on her book tour, and she had these audiences, young women, really diverse and looking for guidance.

Jennifer Konner

Women Looking Book Young She Origin

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Life Perspective Day You New Get

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Age Common Sense Next Common Sense

The truth of it is when you get an audience to laugh and camp along with you, it's much easier to scare 'em again because they're using two sides of their emotions. It's much easier to set them up for a good cheap thrill scare again.

Good Truth Laugh You Emotions Cheap

We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.

Freedom Religion Losing Speech Press

I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.

Simple Attention You Choose Know

When I was growing up, I always wanted to do well in boxing. I wanted to look after my parents, and I wanted to look after myself.

Myself Parents Growing Up Look Up

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

Me Someone Enough Now Old Tell

In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

Love Hero Romantic I Am Action Play

Usher and Shakira are so humble and easy to get along with.

Christina Milian

Humble Easy Along Get Usher

There have been times when I'm writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can't help but wonder - 'What are the people I know going to think about this?' So I have to remind myself that all is permissible. Art has to be a free space. Language has to be a free space.

William T. Vollmann

Art Myself Space People Writing

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