Samuel Johnson Quotes
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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Music is a language.
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That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
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I want to be fulfilled creatively as an actress and get to be in roles that are meaningful and impactful. I hope the same thing for myself as a director, one day. I want to make things that have an impact on how we look at the world.
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To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deep into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps three thousand years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our oppression of animals.
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It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
