Samuel Johnson Quotes

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

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• Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • War
  • Rules
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• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Should

• What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • People
  • Work
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• The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Good
  • Security

• I'm very open-minded.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Very
  • Open-minded

• My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• Polychain is investing in blockchain assets. We do not invest in private companies or hold shares in private companies. We invest purely in tokens or digital assets, and those include assets that people are familiar with, like bitcoin and ethereum, as well as very early-stage projects.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • People
  • Digital
  • Invest

• But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

• Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Doing
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Action

• Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • People
  • Culture
  • Faith

• I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Audience
  • Dumb
  • Elitism

• I've always been interested in making movies.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Interested

• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • World
  • America

• Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Equality
  • Priority

• The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It takes away from all my mystery, which, as I've told you before, is the most important thing between a man and a woman.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • World
  • Important
  • Man

• My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn't going to be from just one location.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Wise
  • Chinese

• I'm a mom. That probably hinders sometimes and helps sometimes. To some people, that makes me more approachable.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • People
  • Mom

• When I heard the news that Steve Jobs had died, my mind flashed back to 1985, when I began my love affair with computers. I was stationed in Moscow for The Associated Press, and I ordered an Apple IIc - by Telex - from a department store in Helsinki, Finland. They express-shipped it to me, a month later, by train.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • Mind

• It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Man
  • Dying