Samuel Johnson Quotes
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.Samuel Johnson
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
Garrett Neff -
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. Bradley -
The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
Karl Pilkington -
When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
Sam Trammell -
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
Walter Gropius -
I like to discover new things.
Olivier Megaton
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
Kate Christensen -
The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.
Rachel True -
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
Karen Armstrong -
For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
Laura Dern -
For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
Vanessa Lachey
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
Natalie Martinez -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
Caitlin Moran -
Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
Valerie Plame -
Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
Tadashi Shoji -
I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
Mandy Patinkin
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Before we start making blanket statements about abolishing the IRS, I think it's important to focus on what the tax code for the 21st century should look like.
Charles Boustany -
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu -
Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.
Mel Torme -
Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
Walter Annenberg -
The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion
Amory Lovins -
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Samuel Johnson