Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
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I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.
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Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
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I guess I'm just a natural warrior.
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
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If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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It doesn't matter if you've been working hard on something for six months. If you realize a track is wack, you have to throw it away. A lot of people can't do that.
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My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
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I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us
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In the face of Russian aggression, we’re not going to turn our back to our allies in Europe. We’re going to stay united in NATO, which is the world’s strongest alliance.
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We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast... It will be some finite number of years, and I don't know the number - before our doom comes.
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I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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We've been going through some growing pains getting established, but I think it will continue to get better. I could see it becoming very successful.
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I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.
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We have, as a result of two thousand years of Christianity, sex on the brain. Which isn't always the best place for it.
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[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.
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Round numbers are always false.
