Samuel Johnson Quotes
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.
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Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.
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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
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I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
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People often ask me if my parents helped me. My mother did lend me $10 to register the domain name.
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The trick is falling in love with something enough, and being excited enough by something, to want to make that year and a half or two year commitment and wake up every morning at 5 to go deal with a whole day full of problems to get it up on the screen. You really need passion.
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A Christianity that does not have as its primary focus the deepening of passions for God is a false Christianity, no matter how zealously it seeks conversions or how forcefully it advocates righteous behavior.
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I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.
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Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play.
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
