Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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.
Gary Sherman
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
Victor Hugo
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
Edmund Hillary
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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.
Gary Hamel
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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.
Ian Millar
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
Hailey Gates
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
Wendell Pierce
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.
Olivia Wilde
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
Taiye Selasi
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov
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My mum and dad aren't together, but she plays a massive part in my life. We have deep conversations: I tell her where I need support, where I feel she's lacking, and I support her with whatever she needs. I understand she won't be here forever, and I want no regrets.
Anthony Joshua
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.
Carol Gilligan
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English superiority and American obedience.
Samuel Johnson
