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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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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It's called 'Night Moves,' and it's my favorite 'Doc Ford' of all times. It's way too complicated, but it worked.
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You can have good times with anyone, but it's really different and much more interesting when you look at how you get through the bad times with someone.
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Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.
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I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.
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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.
