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.
Manny Farber -
Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
Tablo -
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
Malcolm Bradbury -
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.
Indra Nooyi -
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.
Ulrich Beck -
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 -
I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
Edmund Hillary -
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
Gary Hamel -
I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
Hailey Gates -
Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
Wendell Pierce -
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 -
I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.
Olivia Wilde -
I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
Taiye Selasi -
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe -
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov -
In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.
Gary Miller Bad Brains
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I like to think I was just lucky. I didn't think I was better than anybody else, but I could sing everybody's songs.
Dennis Edwards The Temptations -
I am super-comfortable with powerful women.
Patty Jenkins -
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
Walter Kirn -
There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.
Anthony Bourdain -
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
Mary Ellen Chase -
English superiority and American obedience.
Samuel Johnson