Samuel Johnson Quotes
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.
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There's so much burying of heads in sand going on in the U.S., people are finally beginning to recognize that the environment is dying, but it's far too late, and I am conflicted.
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I've had several working-man songs that I like.
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I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.
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The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
