Samuel Johnson Quotes
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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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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Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.
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In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.
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I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'
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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
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I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I was breathing correctly. So, I started doing vocal exercises and would stretch out before I sang, stuff to help my breathing. It's funny, you breathe your whole life then you find out you're not doing it correctly.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
