Samuel Johnson Quotes
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.
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I have to challenge myself, and I have to challenge the reader. We should be weaving and working on new stories and not the same story over and over.
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I saw bat speed right from the beginning. After you've got bat speed, my job is to get him into position to use the bat speed. That's what we've worked on, proper positioning, stay down on the ball and not try to pull everything.
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I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.
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I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
