Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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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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It's always about 'what have you done for me lately.' As players we see what is going on.
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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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I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.
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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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Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.
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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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Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.
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When you wake up and your heart is going like the clappers or your back feels strained, or you develop some other hang-up, you should let your mind go to the pain and the pain itself will regurgitate the memory which originally caused you to suppress it in your body. In this way the pain goes to the right channel instead of being repressed again, as it is if you take a pill or a bath, saying 'Well, I'll get over it'. Most people channel their pain into God or masturbation or some dream of making it.
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Was ever poet so trusted before?
