Samuel Johnson Quotes
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.Samuel Johnson
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
Pat Brown -
Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
Laura Schlessinger -
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
Barry Mann -
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
Cam Newton -
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.
Ice Cube -
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky -
Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
Vance McAllister -
I want to do whatever I can to survive.
Sam Simon -
I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
Patricia Arquette
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
Zoe Foster Blake -
A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
Patricia Hewitt -
What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
Mae Jemison -
Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
Bat for Lashes -
I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
Paris Hilton -
Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
Barbara Jordan
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I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
Taiye Selasi -
If you want to make YouTube your career, you have to accept that it is also a business. I know everyone's like, 'It's my passion, it's my hobby.' And that's fine; I support that. But if you want to make it your career, it does have a business side.
Lilly Singh -
Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
Edgar Degas -
Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
Victor Hugo -
I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby.
Jean Nidetch -
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
Samuel Johnson