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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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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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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Actors are not necessarily smart people.
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A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
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Applying smarter IT to genomic data may offer the potential to cure many types of cancer and other diseases.
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When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.
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My mom and brother are both doctors, and it seems crazy that so many people think science is a mutable idea.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
