Samuel Johnson Quotes
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
Yoko Ono
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
Yvonne Strahovski
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
Vikas Swarup
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
Samuel L. Jackson
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It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
Gabriela Sabatini
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I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.
Zac Brown Band
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
Mahershala Ali
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When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.
Tavi Gevinson
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
La Monte Young
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
Carlo Rubbia
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Walt Whitman
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
Hans Hofmann
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
Ralph Stanley
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
A. R. Rahman
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From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.
Warren Spector
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
Zooey Deschanel
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I was a big fan of the Tim Burton films. I really liked the character. And I remember thinking the Batmobile was very cool.
Sam Heughan
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There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.
Gary Neville
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Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.
Victoria Pendleton
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You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
Wanda Jackson
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There are two - parallel - universes of science. One is the actual day-to-day work of scientists, patiently researching into all parts of the world and sometimes making amazing discoveries. The other is the role science plays in the public imagination - the powerful effect it has in shaping how millions of ordinary people see the world.
Adam Curtis
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson