Samuel Johnson Quotes
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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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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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
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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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I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a few days. But my body couldn't handle it.
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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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I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
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What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.
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Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.
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Duchamp named the mobiles and Arp the stabiles. Arp said, 'What did you call those things you exhibited last year? Stabiles?'
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Round numbers are always false.
