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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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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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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I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
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As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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My buddies all still make fun of me about the whole 'Leprechaun' thing, and I'm proud of that movie. I'm just as proud of that work as I am of anything else that I've done. I feel like where I was in my career at the time, I committed to the character.
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A Republican philosophy goes something like this: If you take your car to the mechanic, and instead of fixing it, they take out the engine and charge you an arm and a leg, you should conclude that mechanics can't fix cars and you should probably just take yours to the junkyard and sell it for scrap metal.
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
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That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class to speak of, is wrong; it's a crime against the next generation and we've got to do something about 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.
