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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A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.
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The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.
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I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Was ever poet so trusted before?
