Samuel Johnson Quotes
That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.
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I have anonymously helped many thousands.
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Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!
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People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
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I think everybody can relate to loving somebody and them bringing out a wild side in you.
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I'm not difficult to work with, trust me.
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We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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I'm not afraid of a big studio film; I trust my instincts. But for me, it's not really about box office. It's about looking back on your work and not having to apologize for it.
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I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
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Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.
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If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.
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There were no wrestling schools in Ireland. It was completely unheard of.
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I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane.
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Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond.
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What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
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I don't buy into this, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.'
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It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like fungus on the surface. It is “thought-defying,” as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its “banality.” Only the good has depth and can be radical.
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My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.
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That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.
