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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I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.'
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For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.
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In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
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I try to harmonize and sing every moment that I can.
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I think it's really important that women are represented in the media, and diverse women as well.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
