Samuel Johnson Quotes
From Thee, great God: we spring, to Thee we tend,Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
Quotes to Explore
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
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The less you 'think' you know, the greater your ability to learn and grow.
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Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.
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Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.
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From Thee, great God: we spring, to Thee we tend,Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
