Samuel Johnson Quotes
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.Samuel Johnson
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
Karen Thompson Walker -
It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.
Bebe Rexha -
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
H. L. Mencken -
Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
Fran Drescher -
Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
Saint Ambrose -
'Star Wars' was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was.
Katee Sackhoff
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Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
Campbell Scott -
The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
Barry Eisler -
I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
Maajid Nawaz -
Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
Kaley Cuoco -
I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
Dagmara Dominczyk -
Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
Taissa Farmiga
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
Mahesh Babu -
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine -
The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. -
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
Harold Bloom -
In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
Patrick Whitesell -
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
F. Sionil Jose
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The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.
Jack Welch -
The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
Gary Sinise -
I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.
Youssou N'Dour -
I’ve always believed the Spirit puts people in our lives for a reason. I’m not sure if that applies to eleven-year-old carjackers, but we’ll work with what the Spirit sends.
Beverly Jenkins -
The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.
Stephen Levine -
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Samuel Johnson