Samuel Johnson Quotes
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I've got to win every race.
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I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.
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When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
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I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
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When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
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I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
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The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.
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I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
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I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know.
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I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.
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I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.
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The true poem rests between the words.
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A flowing river is an infinity of superimposed production belts.
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Your father cares as little as we do. It's just that he tends to despair, while we are full of hope.
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Not only the artist but everyone 'becomes someone else' in becoming someone. One is thought about, thus invented. Or as Steinberg put it with memorable succinctness in his Cogito drawings, 'I think, therefore Descartes is.' One creates not oneself but another. Being is in the act.
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Dearly beloved - late again!
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The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.
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$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.
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Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.
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Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose if only a writer can make them long to know what happens next.
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I never worked out for any kind of image.
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