quotes about Lbj

last updated: November 28, 2023

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
-- Lyndon B. Johnson

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LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.
-- Mark Steyn

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“Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.”
“Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.”
“Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there every day, sitting there in the room with the editor. I lose perspective incredibly quickly, and so what I do is I watch...I come in the room and give very specific notes and then I go back to my house or in my office and I watch the dailies.”
“Addie, please." More tears dripped down her cheeks. "Don't be so hard." "Oh, please," I muttered...and that was as far as I got. 'You broke my heart' were the words that had risen to my mouth, but I couldn't say them. That was what you said to a boyfriend, a lover, not your best friend. She'd laugh. And I'd had enough of being laughed at. I'd worked hard to get to a place where it didn't happen anymore, where I didn't move through life like a walking target, where it was just me and my paints and brushes and my big empty bed every night. "You weren't a good friend," I said instead.”
“If you're not getting any bad reviews, you're not taking enough risks”
“Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'”
“It was brief, swift, and then it was done. It was a professional job. I needed to be kissed, and I was kissed.”
“It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.”
“With any other celebrity, people come up and say, 'Hey, I really like your work.' But with my fans, when they see me, they don't even say hello. They just go, 'AWWWWWGHGHHHGHGHRRR!'”
“A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.”