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Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'


Rian Johnson

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DUSTIN JOHNSON When that development agreement was approved, the city extracted $1.5 million from the developer. Th...
AL JOHNSON Her grafts are doing fine. She's home; she's walking around with oxygen. She's doing pretty darned g...
AL JOHNSON You know if you don't do something in a big hurry, it's all going to slip away. We need to do someth...
AL JOHNSON Most linebackers try to hit you and then go around you. Trotter tries to run right through you. And ...
AL JOHNSON I've never seen a project with this much open space and tree density.
AL JOHNSON I'm not going to get any bigger, but there have been some pretty good centers who were smaller than ...
AL JOHNSON You know it's hard to run it into the end zone when you're down from the 6 to about the 2. It's nice...
AL JOHNSON Our coaches put us in a great scheme, and when we thought they were going to blitz, we checked into ...
AL JOHNSON To be a leader you don't have to be captain, but Dan is both. He wants everybody on the same page an...
AL JOHNSON Prostitution has been going on for quite a while,
AL JOHNSON We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making ...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON I'm a believer. I'm one of the few standing before you today from a large financial services...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentall...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON We need to come up with use cases for this technology that drive clear benefits for individuals and ...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good orde...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investme...
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