Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson
British journalist, author, and historian who edited the New Statesman and penned over forty works, including the 1959 novel, Left of Centre, and the 1997 non-fiction work, A History of the American People. He also wrote four works on art and architecture and two memoirs.
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth2 November 1928
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Absolutely. You can't be 33-0 without good coaching, good kids. I thought fundamentally they did some things very well, and they got all the loose balls we didn't get. ... Today, the better team won, I have no problem with that.
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I think there's a couple of reasons: One, I don't think they understand it. I think they see it and hear 'option' and think that's 3 yards and a cloud of dust, which couldn't be further from the truth.
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I understand why the decision was made, but it was unfortunate that it came at a time when we were anxious to play,
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I would rather go in with high expectations than no expectations, but that's just what they are -- expectations. This team hasn't won a game.
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He's probably the main difference between what they played like last year and the great stuff they're playing now,
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It does not always pay to have a golden tongue unless one has the ability to hold it
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Right now, Lamar is the guy we're going with at quarterback, ... We just have to find out what's wrong and why he's cramping up and fix it.
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It would be good. Because, eventually no doubt, it will be developed.
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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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Now that it is dedicated to the bell, it can never be torn down.
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Over the last half-century, anti-Semitism has been the essential theology of the Arab world. The Arabs have wasted trillions in oil royalties on weapons of war and propaganda . . . In their flight from reason, they have failed to modernize or civilize their societies, to introduce democracy, or to consolidate the rule of law.
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A ruling like this will cause prejudice in people who have never been prejudiced before.
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One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.
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That's the thing with scheduling, you can't predict what teams are going to do from year to year, ... Right now, one of our team's goals is to make it to a bowl game, and that's a lot easier to do if you start 1-1 instead of 0-2.