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.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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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.
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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.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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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.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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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.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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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.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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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.
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I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.
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When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life. Have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life.
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Your letter firmed me up a lot. It certainly is a comfort to know that my work is respected by someone whom I respect and am as fond as you. It confirms my beliefe that life is notall nonsense and cruelty-the inversion of Victorian complacency-but has hard spots of sense and love bobbing about in it here and there.
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They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.
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When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.
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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.
