Samuel Johnson Quotes
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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I think I'm bad luck for Tiger because he missed the cut in Charlotte with me. But yeah, those are two of the best players of all time. Tiger's the best player of all time in my opinion, so when he's not in the field, it's a relief because he's such a great player.
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What was really interesting to me about 'The Telegarden' was this idea of connecting the physical world, the natural world, and the social world through the Internet.
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It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.
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With Loopt Star, consumers get to tap interactive rewards wherever they may be.
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It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure.
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.