Samuel Johnson Quotes
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No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
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I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.
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Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely.
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People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'
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If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife or fight with his parents and fight with his in-laws and fight with everybody, because men aren't supposed to be happy; they're supposed to do well.
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When I was young, I would go to the races and it was an unbelievable feeling when you'd watch them race.
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
