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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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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Meum institutum non est verborum significationem sed rerum naturam explicare
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I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., and asked them to make funding for the United Nations dependent on ending blatant discrimination against Israel at the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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I used to turn my shoulders pretty level, which a lot of golfers think is correct. But that made my swing too shallow coming into impact, so my contact was picky, especially off the turf.
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I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.
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Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.
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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.
