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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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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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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Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
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From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.
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The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; to say that it is ambiguous is to assert that its meaning is never fixed, that it must be constantly won. Absurdity challenges every ethics; but also the finished rationalization of the real would leave no room for ethics; it is because man's condition is ambiguous that he seeks, through failure and outrageousness, to save his existence.
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It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.
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Sin is very important to the soul because sin is what disintegrates the soul; it's what attacks the soul. Sin kind of is to the soul what cancer is to the body.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
