Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.
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Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.
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I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.
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I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.
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A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
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I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.
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Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
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In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.
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What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?
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Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.
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I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them.
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Stop spending money you don't have.
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
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He understood the tone of voice instinctively, as he always had; it was his greatest gift, to know emotions even better than the person feeling them.
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Pain is good, I'd say, when it's incidental to Love. In 'I give up my life for my friend' it is my friend, not my death, that matters. And sometimes I needn't give up my life for him, I can live for him, and with him, and the power of the spirit is then equally manifested, I should think.
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I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.
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I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.
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Wisdom … never closes her school of thought but always opens her doors to those who thirst for the sweet water of discourse, and pouring on them an unstinted stream of undiluted doctrine, persuades them to be drunken with the drunkenness which is soberness itself.
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Was ever poet so trusted before?
