Samuel Johnson Quotes
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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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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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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Africa is the future.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembering to tell the producers, they'd already cast someone else. Spilt milk!
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Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
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The 'victim to victory' theory is that, if you listen to the radio, a large percentage of the hits are... about victim to victory, like, 'I'm having a terrible time.' And then the pre-chorus is, 'I don't know what's gonna happen next.' And the chorus is, 'Now I'm brilliant, and everything is great, because something happened to make it great.'
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
