Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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I think the President is clearly insane in several ways, and insanest upon war and its supreme glories. I think he longs for a big war wherein he can spectacularly perform as chief general and chief admiral, and go down in history as the only monarch of modern times that has served both offices at the same time.
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The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is the one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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Don't want terrorism in US? Stop importing Muslims!
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
