Samuel Johnson Quotes
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
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It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
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May we remain connected in love. We are one.
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
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I will defend and enforce the laws of our country to ensure that our people and our nation are protected.
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Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of æsthetic, not merely historical, criticism.
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Once someone I was working with said, 'You know, Vanna, some people think about what they're having for lunch tomorrow and you're thinking hundreds of years into the future.'
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They say I'm a conservative, but I consider myself I true liberal.
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A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
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Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.
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Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.
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There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.
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I'm pretty outspoken.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
