Samuel Johnson Quotes
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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When I was in drama school, I really got into a dark place. I went to a therapist - it was really helpful to have that dialogue with someone. So I understand anxiety.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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There are some things that other people just don't want to forgive you for. For instance, Woody Allen and Soon-Yi.
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My copy of 'Night' is dog-eared. The pages are filled with plastic colored 'flags' that are blue, green, purple, and yellow. Vocabulary is in the margins; phrases and sentences are underlined, some with pencil, and some with pen. Many words are circled.
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Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt,And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
