Samuel Johnson Quotes
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.
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You have to think about what you want to do. There is nothing to say that you should study from the age of 20 to 23. I learnt more on a film set at 17 than in the classroom.
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Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.
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Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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She’s got the grownup blues Tight dresses and lipstick She’s sportin’ high-heeled shoes Oh but tomorrow morning She’ll have to change her trend And be sweet sixteen And back in class again.
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I think the investment community, consumers, the investment houses themselves are anxious to get resolution here, ... So the faster we can fill that void and get closure on this, the better.
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My head is perfectly clean inside.
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And as a woman on television, I actually feel like you're more representative of women if you're - if you've got curves and if everything isn't super tight.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.