Samuel Johnson Quotes
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
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It's those damn critics again.
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
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If something's not right, I don't believe in maintaining something for the sake of what's considered a traditional family, because I believe that there are different ways to raise children. It's far more effective to raise children in happy homes.
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I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!
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Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.
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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching.
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As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to maintain the existence of Nothing.
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Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.
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The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.
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When I started writing music on the guitar, it started off very folky because of my limited ability to play. It was slow, soft melodies. But then, as I got better on the guitar, I started exploring different sounds.
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
