Samuel Johnson Quotes
I am inclined to believe that few attacks either of ridicule or invective make much noise, but by the help of those they provoke.
Quotes to Explore
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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I would say our sound is soul pop.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
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I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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And for me, I think of the group as one in which there's always this pendulum swinging back and forth between writing shorter, more concise pieces until we get kind of sick of it and then writing pieces that get more sprawling and experimental and explore in different directions.
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"Summer Sisters" is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion. I don't like sudden loud noises. They scare me. And then all these people came running down the hill and jumped in the water in their finery and a bride and groom was with them, and that's where it all started.
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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.
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I am inclined to believe that few attacks either of ridicule or invective make much noise, but by the help of those they provoke.
