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.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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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.
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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.
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I'm very open-minded.
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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.
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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.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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.
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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.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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I've always been interested in making movies.
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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.
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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.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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Time needs another minute.
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My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
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Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.
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Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.
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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.
