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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You know, I think in some kinds of ways, we are all born into stuff that gives us no choice.
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What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.
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I'd quit my job at a production company and was like, 'I'm going to be a writer...' I became a temp, and it was the mid-nineties, when there was the Internet boom, and the normal group of graduates ready to fill in didn't exist.
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For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.
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Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.
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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.
