Samuel Johnson Quotes

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Samuel Johnson

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• I've got to win every race.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Win
  • Race
  • Got

• 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.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Life
  • Baby
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Family
  • Car
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Man
  • Honest
  • Blues

• 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.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Success
  • Story
  • Achieve

• I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

  

  Ira Hayes
  • Men
  • Honor
  • Hero

• 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.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Person
  • Teenager
  • Only

• 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.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Country
  • Parents

• God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Nature

• 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.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Together
  • Suffering

• I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.

  

  Larry Charles
  • Take
  • Big
  • Risks

• 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.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Know
  • Me
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • World
  • Mother
  • Possible

• 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.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• The true poem rests between the words.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • True
  • Words

• A flowing river is an infinity of superimposed production belts.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • River

• Your father cares as little as we do. It's just that he tends to despair, while we are full of hope.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Hope
  • Father

• 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.

  

  Harold Rosenberg

• We need to put in proper safeguards. How are we going to feel if somebody leases to the Taliban?

  

  William Shawn
  • Feels
  • Taliban
  • Lease

• The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter.

  

  Alice Morse Earle
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• By my count, the Deputy Prime Minister has sworn an oath of loyalty and service to Her Majesty no fewer than four times in the last two years, yet he has used his position as a minister of the Crown as a podium from which to rail against our history and our heritage. The minister says that instead of the monarchy he would prefer an entirely Canadian institution, but he fails to recognize that the monarchy is as Canadian as the House of Commons itself.

  

  Elsie Wayne
  • History
  • Loyalty
  • Recognize

• I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• The one thing I try and do, when people say, 'What kind of movies do you guys look for,' the one thing I look for is 'different.' And I think that's very antithetical to Hollywood.

  

  Jason Blum
  • People
  • Different

• LEXICOGRAPHER - A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

  

  Samuel Johnson