Samuel Johnson Quotes
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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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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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.
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The slogans of globalisation are 'Get on your bike' and 'The world is flat.' People who want to get on have to be willing to move, often and unhesitatingly, at the behest of their employer or to seek work.
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Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
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There is nobody who would want, in any way, to lose what Paul Volcker won for the American people by fighting inflation and achieving price stability.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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English superiority and American obedience.
