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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We were not in sync in defining the scope of the project.
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I think it's really more a tribute to what the Naval Academy's all about. We're fortunate here in San Diego that we have some military bases and a lot of people are stationed in the area, and hopefully they're proud of what's going on at the academy.
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I think there's a lever on the side of your chair that might make you appear a little taller than you are,
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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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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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Kevin's played a vital role in helping us get the program turned around at Navy and we certainly appreciate the effort of both he and his family. He's a highly motivated individual and I'm sure he will do a great job for Georgetown football.
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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.
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I still have questions about the subject matter but it's more about the manner in which it was done. It was voted on after midnight without anyone (from the public) there, and it was the first time some of the board members saw it.
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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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We will have to play it out and see what happens, ... We've played two quarterbacks in every game; I don't know why we wouldn't in this one.
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We believe Juniper has the potential to dominate the market.
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We have to build new networks to support the Internet, for one simple reason, there isn't a single viewer in the audience today that's happy with their Internet performance. They're not happy with the performance of the bandwidth coming into their home or business. They're not happy with responsiveness of Web pages, they're not happy about the ability to not download fat files.
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We know this city is going to be what we make it.