226 Quotes by Paul Johnson

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    Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France's leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country.

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    In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.

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    This is the first Emmy to be staged outside the USA and confirms our efforts to stay ahead of the curve as digital technology re-shapes our industry.

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    They're very incongruous, these great, big, sometimes 30-foot trees, in the middle of an otherwise barren landscape.

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    You can't make anything out of that. The conditions were tough and we've got a lot of guys hurt. Both teams made enough mistakes to lose 10 times. Everybody's got a lot of work to do.

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    As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

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    The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable events within our solar system, and still more outside it, that could make Earth uninhabitable by humans.

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    There was some trucker guy and he said, 'How's the horses?' ... And I said, 'The horses are OK, but I'm about to run out of fuel.' So he let me siphon five gallons out of his truck. I don't know his name.

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