Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.
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Beauty, to me, is not a physical thing. It's a feeling.
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Procrastination comes in two types. Some of us procrastinate in order to pursue restful activities - spending time in bed, watching TV - while others delay difficult or unpleasant tasks in favor of those that are more fun.
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What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.
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Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
