Samuel Johnson Quotes
There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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Today we are shapers of the world of tomorrow.
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I played American when I was, like, fourteen, and I was awful. I cringed the whole way through.
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The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
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There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.
