Samuel Johnson Quotes
With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
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My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.
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To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music.
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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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Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
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The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.
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I always like helping young artists develop because I was a new artist myself.
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on genders of nouns: Why refer to Lady Crack Pipe or Good Sir Dishrag when these things could never live up to all that their sex implied?
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Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the rage that the crucible of racism created.
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Posh people blow my mind. Apart from empathy, they're good at everything - true survivalists.
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Naked I came into this world, naked I shall go out of it. And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.
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With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.
