Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I guess I crave stability.
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I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.
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It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.
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Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments.
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I have so much music to release, but I'm meticulous. I'm like, "You've got to redo that part, redo that part." And people are like, "Just forget that and go ahead with it." But it's all about perfection, about trying to make it as good as you can.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
