Samuel Johnson Quotes
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.
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I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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I have to accept risk as a racing driver.
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Some have immersed themselves in internet materials that magnify, exaggerate, and in some cases invent shortcomings of early Church leaders. Then they draw incorrect conclusions that can affect testimony. Any who have made these choices can repent and be spiritually renewed.
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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
