Samuel Johnson Quotes
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We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
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Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.
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Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves.
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.
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I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.
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I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
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A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
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Lots of girls marry at 16 in Tennessee.
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When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.
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It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.
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In the aftermath of September 11, it has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation's long-term security, we must be active in promoting American values abroad through our foreign policy.
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You know I'm weak on good looks.
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I'm going to try to unite all Americans.
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Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern with chemicals. The contrary view- that all ideas are determined by material relationships- is the materialist superstition.
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Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
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I think the fans are going to expect a lot from me, as they should.
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Res est solliciti plena timoris amor.
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The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock.
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It might as well be said, 'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.'
