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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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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Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?
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I've dated jerks, so why not geeks?
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For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.
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Artists have no choice but to express their lives.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
