Samuel Johnson Quotes
I'll come no more behind your scenes, David Garrick; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.
Quotes to Explore
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
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Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
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The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.
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As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
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Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
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I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.
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I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.
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My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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Comedy is basically self-deprecation.
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Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
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I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.
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Change before you have to.
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My very shy Punjabi father never taught me about the birds and bees. So shy was he that he may have thought he would get arrested for even talking about it.
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
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Storytelling is my true passion.
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I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!
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I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful.
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The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.
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I'll come no more behind your scenes, David Garrick; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.
