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.
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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.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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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.
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I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid.
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I think charity begins with your family and you take it from there.
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A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
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Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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The American dream belongs to all of us.
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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.
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The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.
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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.
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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.
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But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.
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I thank you
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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.
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I don't have any desire to be better known.
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
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Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.
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The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams.
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Hiking is the best workout!... You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.
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I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.
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A jest breaks no bones.