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.
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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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I think Phil Collins is one of the most underrated musicians, singers, performers - he is absolutely amazing, I think, and I think hes probably got a bit of a rough ride occasionally because he became so mainstream and so popular.
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The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life.
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Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.
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For most governors, we find the United States Senate or the United States Congress very frustrating at the slow pace in which they act. There doesn't seem to be a lot of discipline and organization to what they do.
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I can tell you what people on minimum wage want: They want a career. They don't want a minimum wage.
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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.
