Samuel Johnson Quotes
'Enlarge my life with multitude of days!'In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays:Hides from himself his state, and shuns to knowThat life protracted is protracted woe.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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I am healthy and happy.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.
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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
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Peddling to racism is just as bad as being a racist.
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I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.
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If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen.
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I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.
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I had a pretty rough life. I got caught up in the star syndrome. It's not something I'm proud of, but it's something that I'm glad is over.
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'Enlarge my life with multitude of days!'In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays:Hides from himself his state, and shuns to knowThat life protracted is protracted woe.
