Samuel Johnson Quotes
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.
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The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.
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My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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When I first joined 'Dancing with the Stars,' I did not want to do it. It's not what I like, it's not what I believe in... the judges are fake, this is fake, that is fake... there is not a lot of reality.
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Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.
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Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
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I've gotta believe that my managing tenure has come to an end here.
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It's better to have a pocket full of regrets than to never have lived.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
