Samuel Johnson Quotes

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Samuel Johnson

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• I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

  

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• By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

  

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• And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.

  

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• I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

  

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• I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.

  

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• But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

  

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• One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.

  

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• Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

  

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• It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.

  

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• All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

  

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• My faith makes me willing to do things that may look like there's going to be a lot of physical difficulty. And you just go ahead and do it because you truly believe it's the right thing to do.

  

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• One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.

  

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• I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'

  

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• I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.

  

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• In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

  

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• I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in journals.

  

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• You never see yourself as that interesting. You're like, 'Really? Me? You want a picture with me? I'm boring!' But if I saw somebody like Simon Pegg or Johnny Depp, or one of my heroes, I'd get totally starstruck and want to go ask them for a picture.

  

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• I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

  

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• Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

  

  Samuel Johnson