Samuel Johnson Quotes
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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I am turning into the person I knew I would.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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It's time to give back; you know, I've lived in this beautiful world of fashion for so long, and it's time to really get my hands dirty and get in the trenches and see the world for what it really is.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen.
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Journalists can get very pompous, especially in the formalized days of 'Meet the Press,' when they took themselves so damned seriously.
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Federal gas tax revenues that are paid into the trust fund by highway users should be used for programs that benefit highway users.
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The Armenian Genocide is such a controversial and very sensitive issue because the Turkish and Armenian people disagree about the facts of what actually happened. I know how strongly Armenians feel about the Genocide, and how it's never been recognised. At the same time, I do not hold today's generation of people accountable.
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I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
