Samuel Johnson Quotes
I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
Quotes to Explore
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I myself am a former commando fighter.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'
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Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
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My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
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I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.
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The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
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It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
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I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.
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Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.
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I'm really into good nutrition and keeping healthy! That said, I'm also addicted to candy - It's my biggest weakness.
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Our house was like a hotel. It was a loony-tunes household. If you got arrested in high school, everyone knew: 'Call Mrs. Evans; she'll bail you out.'
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
