Samuel Johnson Quotes
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
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Money: power at its most liquid.
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A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
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You can't rule the world, but what you can do is win the world with love and understanding.
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I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.
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West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
