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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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 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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She was a one-in-a-million person, ... You don't run into someone like her often, and the team is going to have a very hard time replacing her.
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Making points for your team to win the overall title is the best part.
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We're starting over. This team hasn't done anything yet.
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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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You can't make anything out of that. The conditions were tough and we've got a lot of guys hurt. Both teams made enough mistakes to lose 10 times. Everybody's got a lot of work to do.
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There's a lot of guys on this team who could be captains. There's going to be far more leaders than two if we're going to be any good.
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I think they had some fun and played, but I don't know what you make of that. The conditions were tough and we've got some guys hurt. ... Both teams made enough mistakes to lose 10 times.
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I'm excited the team has achieved one of their goals, to have a chance to go to a bowl game. I'm excited to be going to San Diego. I was lucky enough when I coached in Hawaii to play there in the Holiday Bowl. It's a great city.
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What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense.
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We got permission from the two churches because this their land. Then we went to the historical society and the city council to get permission.
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We're going to turn up the intensity on him a bit and see how he handles it.
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The United States is a concept that works very well, even in bad times. But that's no reason to think its structure can be superimposed with success on any other part of the world, particularly when times are terrible.