"I was raised in farm and ranch communities, and my dad wanted me to be a cowboy like him, but I saw how he struggled in life and wanted more than that."

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Tom Johnson

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“I was never particularly good at listening to people who tried to tell me what to do or not to do. I watched the pros on television and tried to copy their strokes and learn from that. That was easy for me. I have no idea whether my swing meets the classical criteria. Anyhow, it's good enough to be successful.”

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“There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'”
“A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.”
“A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.”
“You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.”
“I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's too much to handle.”
“I like stories that affect families.”

Source : "Fox News' Shepard Smith Explains What's 'Right' About His Network (Q&A)". Interview with Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 31, 2012.
“Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed by some person or circumstance. ... violence is perpetrated by a small subset of people with favorable views of themselves. ... Viewed in this light, the societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.”

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