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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Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
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The course of Nature is the art of God.
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It's kind of interesting when you sign on to a show because you're basically signing on to play a character because you only really see the first episode of the show.
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People are questioning if Ted Cruz can legally run for president because he was born in Canada. And the last thing we want to do is pave the way for a President Bieber.
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I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
