Samuel Johnson Quotes
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare.
Quotes to Explore
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.
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We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.
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If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.
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Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.
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There's definitely stories I would like to tell; I'd like to see more films focusing on women's lives.
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To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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When I'm Los Angeles, it's work. That's what I'm there for is work.
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I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.
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My dogs are crazy. They're always getting into some kind of trouble... but then again, they're my most loyal friends.
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I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.
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I used to pay attention to the clouds in the sky.. .I paid close attention for a month to see if they ever repeated. They don't repeat. And I don't think life does either. It's continually various. That's the truth about life.
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We live in a fearful society that has perfected the art of doubting, weaned us on worry, and trained us to focus on everything that can or has gone wrong.
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It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.
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Life is so great every day. I am telling things every day.
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All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare.
