Samuel Johnson Quotes
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You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.
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Let us have peace.
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.
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Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.
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Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & Flow' and lived in both of these outfits. It was one of the best experiences of my professional life.
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I'm not, like, an action-hero guy.
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Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.
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I don't think I'm very much like anyone else, really. I'm sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don't see anybody else and go, 'Damn, they stole my thing.' I'm me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.
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Κλύειν δίκαιος μᾶλλον ἢ πρᾶξαι θέλεις.
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I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
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There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
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If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
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If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.
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People think God is a man. People think God has got ears, nose, teeth and he rises daily in the morning, brushes his teeth and washes his mouth. And he is an old man and he has a beard. All these things people think. But no, God is energy. God is perfect and pure energy.
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I'm really convinced I`m not talented at all, and I'm sure that people are just about to figure that out.
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We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.
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We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.
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I won't tell you about the love that happened when I was three years old, but I can tell you about my first marriage.
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Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the stage.
