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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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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Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.
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We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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I will say this: Rapping-wise, there has never been anybody to match Tupac's energy when coming on a song, like when rappin'. It's unmatched. You can't duplicate it.
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I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.
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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?
