Samuel Johnson Quotes
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In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I'm opinionated because I care so much about the music and the songs.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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I like the work that I get to do.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
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I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.
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I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.
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And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
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A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
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I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.
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I'm a prankster, so some of the - you know, I like a good joke. I think when it's funny, it's funny.
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No recognised school of sculpture had animated this terrible object, yet centuries and even thousands of years seemed recorded in its dim and greenish surface of unplaceable stone.
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
