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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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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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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Some of my friends snowmobile. I'm a little scared of it.
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I could never, ever have an abortion.
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I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component of expressing character.
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In patients with histories of incest, the proportion of RA cells that are ready to pounce is larger than normal. This makes the immune system oversensitive to threat, so that it is prone to mount a defense when none is needed, even when this means attacking the body’s own cells. Our study showed that, on a deep level, the bodies of incest victims have trouble distinguishing between danger and safety. This means that the imprint of past trauma does not consist only of distorted perceptions of information coming from the outside; the organism itself also has a problem knowing how to feel safe.
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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.
