Samuel Johnson Quotes
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
Imelda May
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
Pablo Sandoval
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
Naval Ravikant
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
Dan Pink
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
Ed O'Brien
Radiohead
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
Cameron Mackintosh
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
Felix Dennis
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
Harold Washington
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Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.
Dan Gilbert
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Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.
Candace Cameron Bure
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
Damian Woetzel
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Carl Bernstein
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I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of protest. I don't think it changes policy; I think it changes discourse, and discourse can change ideas, and for me, that's what it's about: having that space for conversation.
Martine Syms
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Pablo Picasso
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I love watching Billy Bob, just as a punter anyway. I like his work. But working with him is really easy and really straight-forward. He's immediately good. He doesn't have to work up to it. He doesn't make your life difficult. He listens. He's a very good listener, in terms of his acting.
Martin Freeman
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As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings. And this, of course, is why evolution remains controversial.
Kenneth R. Miller
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He was a very good hater.
Samuel Johnson
