Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
P. G. Wodehouse
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I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.
Ed Harris
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen
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The true value of having Florida Virtual School in this mix is that it creates a gold standard for all providers to meet if they hope to compete for Florida students. This program raises the bar for everybody, even the traditional public schools. And that benefits all our children.
Dan Webster
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I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid.
J. August Richards
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I think charity begins with your family and you take it from there.
Caprice Bourret
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A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Carl Hubbell
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By nature, I was a little guy with big legs - a stocky lad.
Ilya Ilyin
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Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
Carlos Slim
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
Victor Hugo
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The American dream belongs to all of us.
Kamala Harris
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Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning.
Samuel Beckett
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The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.
Ted Hughes
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If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I had to prepare the mind of the country, and to educate...our party. ... I had to prepare the mind of Parliament and the country on this question of Reform.
Benjamin Disraeli
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But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.
Albert Einstein
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I thank you
Aung San Suu Kyi
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But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.
Charles Bass
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Either one is factually equal, and consequently morally equal as well; on the other hand, if one is morally equal, there is no reason why one should contest factual equality of rights or simply refuse to grant them.
Adolf Hitler
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It's been great to travel because I really enjoyed being 'Elektra', so it's not a problem talking about it.
Elodie Yung
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The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.
Max Muller
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Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.
Marian McPartland
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The difficulty is, to decide how far resolution should set in the direction of activity rather than in the acceptance of a more negative state.
George Eliot
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A jest breaks no bones.
Samuel Johnson