Samuel Johnson Quotes
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes to Explore
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
Ian McDiarmid
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
Sam Shepard
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My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
Orlando Bloom
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
Olga Fonda
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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.
Gary Webb
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
Vincent Cassel
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
Patricia Riggen
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
Sam Shepard
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
Adam Clarke
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I was born Roman, and I'll die Roman. I'll never leave this team or my city.
Francesco Totti
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
W. E. B. Du Bois
