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Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artist #before #being #change #during

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#duties #feel #i #i feel #incompetent

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent. ↗

— Sharon Tate

#certain #certain extent #everything #extent #fairytale

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons. ↗

— Don Johnson

#daughter #easier #get #hell #just

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#assist #charity #elevation #his #justice

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#acquainted #attendance #became #best #church

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations. ↗

— Michael Johnson

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Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work. ↗

— Nicholas Johnson

#decades #effort #families #help #help people

When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun. ↗

— Randy Johnson

#ball #fun #hour #miles #over