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Jack Johnson
Age: 68 †
Born: 1878
Born: March 31
Died: 1946
Died: June 10
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John Arthur Johnson
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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
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Schedules are impossible to me. I am excited to be on tour, but there are instances when I wish that I wasn't managed. The shows are fun, but six hour drives burn me out.
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Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.
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Careful living and correct training methods aided me a great deal, but I would say straight punching was the foundation of all my success.
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I never took singing lessons. I guess, I feel comfortable with it, but I do not feel like a singer. I never want to sing without a guitar in my hand. I consider myself more of a songwriter, rather than a singer. I could never be in a wedding band and just sing Marvin Gaye songs.
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Go to the east shore of any of the Hawaiian Islands, and that's a pretty big lesson on how much plastic is ending up in the ocean. Basically, the Hawaiian Islands act as a filter out in the middle of the Pacific.
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I never doubted the issue from the beginning. I knew I was too good for Burns. I have forgotten more about fighting than Burns ever knew.
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Home is wherever we are if there's love here too
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We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.
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The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.
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Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take. When you find the things that you love the most and you want to give those away, that's love. It's when you want somebody to be happier than yourself, but then once you make them happy, it makes you happier.
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I eat cold eels and think distant thoughts.
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The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.
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A lot of people spend their time just floating/ We were victims together but lonely.
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When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason.
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What about your mind, does it shine?
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love's just a waste of energy and life's just a waste of time so why don't we get together we could waste everything tonight
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Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter.
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You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.
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I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
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