Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
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When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.
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A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.
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When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
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'Kahaani' gave me popularity and 'Gangs of Wasseypur' stardom.
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She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little.
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The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.
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I have the highest goals for myself. That's going out there and being the best player on the floor every time. That's my mentality. If it's Michael Jordan, you know, that's the mentality I take to the court.
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There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it means. I do think that people are overmedicated.
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The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.
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I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.
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Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
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Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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When you're researching things that have happened, the clear narrative arc is not there already. This is the problem of writing nonfiction for me - writing nonfiction which is about serious subjects and has serious political and social points to make, yet which is meant to be popular to a degree - what happens when the facts don't fit a convenient narrative arc? I guess that for a lot of nonfiction writers that is a central challenge.
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It's never me against Saban, and I have too much respect for him to say that anyway. I never felt that way.
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
