"I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Jake M. Johnson

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“Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.”
“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.”

Source : W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). “Prayers for Dark People”
“I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.”

Source : "Anderson Cooper 360°", transcripts.cnn.com. January 5, 2012.
“Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.”
“When we turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, we play a game of pretend, like the child who covers her eyes and thinks you can't see her. And yet, there she remains. Closing our eyes doesn't make violence disappear; it only closes our minds and hearts and enables the violence to continue.”
“Without freedom there will be no firearms among the people; without firearms among the people there will not long be freedom. Certainly there are examples of countries where the people remain relatively free after the people have been disarmed, but there are no examples of a totalitarian state being created or existing where the people have personal arms.”
“Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.”
“The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end.”

Source : "The Titanic’s Forgotten 'Survivor'” by Rainn Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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