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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We have to believe in the mercy and grace of God to trigger conversion rather than the other way around: that you're only going to get the mercy if you have a conversion. The economy of salvation doesn't work that way.
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Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.
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I've got a lot of little quirks and moments that - my wife, she knows exactly what to say and how to handle me, 'cause I can be hard to handle.
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I was really excited to land my first 1080. But I was surprised that it came a lot easier than I thought it would.
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I'm so tired of people saying you have to look a certain way to be American.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
