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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I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?
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I'll tell you where the injustice is. It's with the person earning £12,000 to £15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained by their business or employer. Yet the taxpayer has bailed out the banks, so why are they not showing restraint?
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We're going to have to make it clear that we don't want to use the kinds of tools that we have. We don't want to engage in a different kind of warfare. But we will defend the citizens of this country.
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We must understand the factors that cause fragility, violence, and conflict in order to develop solutions that will meaningfully reduce instability at its roots rather than merely addressing the symptoms.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
