Samuel Johnson Quotes

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

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• I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
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  • Game
  • Fans

• When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • You
  • Movies
  • Got

• I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?

  

  Gary Frank
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Up
  • Live
  • You

• I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Think
  • Will
  • Reaction

• You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • You
  • Peace
  • Always

• How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Important
  • You
  • Feeling

• I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • American
  • You
  • Stand

• To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Song
  • Me
  • Soothing

• My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • You
  • Taken
  • Taxes

• You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Me
  • See
  • Books

• When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Him

• I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.

  

  Maggie Grace
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  • Mistakes
  • Guilt

• You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

  

  Walton Goggins
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• When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'

  

  Tanc Sade
  • You
  • Water
  • Like

• Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Feeling
  • Desire
  • Wanted

• The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Soul
  • You
  • Presence

• I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

  

  Dale Archer
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  • Child
  • Divorce

• In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.

  

  Yannick Noah
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  • Still
  • Villages

• In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Home
  • College
  • Statistics

• It's through our unique flaws that our individuality can be expressed.

  

  David Trumble
  • Unique
  • Through
  • Individuality

• Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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