Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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I'm quite good at not writing.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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If Real want me, they will call me one day, and, if not, no problem. I live my life and am optimistic about the future.
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I had no idea In-N-Out was going to fall on my lap as soon as it did.
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The way I dress, I dress totally different than I did when I was in college. I have to - try to - look professional. You change a lot when you are in the NBA, but I know where I came from.
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I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old values and culture. My grandparents had been reasonably well-off but they became quite poor, living in an attic apartment.
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I'm not an entertainer - that's not what I do. I want to teach viewers; I want to show them. I want to share my culture.
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The future is purchased by the present.
