Samuel Johnson Quotes
So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
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I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
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The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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My feeling about all films and all television is that it's an adventure. That's the way I have to look at it. Because you don't know what the climate of the circumstance is going to be. It could be very good. It could be very mediocre. It could be very bad. You don't know. But I've been doing it long enough now to know that it's an adventure. That's what it's all about.
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Background updating is absolutely the future.
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We've had a tone-deaf White House that does not want to be reasonable. President Obama won't meet with the Republicans. It's all his way.
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If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
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I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
