Samuel Johnson Quotes
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.
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You can never find the right bowling ball. This one's too heavy. This one's good but its pink!
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During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us, from the Shah to Gen. Pinochet, we welcomed them. Democratic dissidents like Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Olof Palme in Sweden got the back of our hand.
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I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.
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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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There's no excuse in a technological age where we've got drones - you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia - that we can't track living flesh-and-blood children.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
