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.
Laraine Day -
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.
Dana Goodyear -
One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
Adam Cohen -
Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
Gary Clark Jr. -
Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
Damien Rice -
I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.
Dan Stevens
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Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
Laura Schlessinger -
I guess I'm just a natural warrior.
Camille Paglia -
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.
Lao Tzu -
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.
Malcolm X -
Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
Jack Kemp -
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.
Yolandi Visser
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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.
Fareed Zakaria -
I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us
Jackson Browne -
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.
Barack Obama -
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.
Jeffrey Zeldman -
I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something I'd be any good at, or make a living from.
Claire Foy -
It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.
James Forrestal
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As a 13, - 14-year-old kid, I'd sit on my bed with a tape recorder and a newspaper. I would do my own newscast. I would practice my diction.
Lester Holt -
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Simone de Beauvoir -
If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free.
Immanuel Kant -
The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
Vita Sackville-West -
Round numbers are always false.
Samuel Johnson