Samuel Johnson Quotes
Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I want to be acting until the day I die!
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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There are two clever tricks men know. One is to make much of nothing. The second is to make nothing of much.
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You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
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I've got a lot of different religious ideas circling through my family, but the positive thing is that I was raised with a lot of openness and compassion.
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But I do enjoy the freedom of doing a movie and then having some time off.
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I love the name 'Stella McCartney.' It's a beautiful name the way it rolls off the tongue. A couple of years ago, I wrote a cello concerto and used that as the basis for the rhythmic and melodic structure of the main motif of the cello part.
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Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
