Samuel Johnson Quotes
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.Samuel Johnson
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
Nargis Fakhri -
The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
Vanessa Paradis -
I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
Park Geun-hye -
I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
Hamza Yusuf -
I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.
Larry the Cable Guy
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
Xenophon -
I came from drama school, and it's a group of 18 people working together in every single production and splitting up the roles for three years, so I am very much about the team.
Dacre Montgomery -
I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
Nancy Reagan -
Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
Ted Cruz -
I write novels and other things.
Jack L. Chalker -
A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
Valentina Tereshkova
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
Nas -
My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think that I have a really good understanding of how all the parts of the puzzle come together to make a film or TV show.
Dacre Montgomery -
There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up – the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.
Pardis Sabeti -
I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
When we look at government in Washington or what's happening on Wall Street, we see so much centralization. But really, our goals should be to eliminate and overcome these central institutions. And in recent years we have gained powerful new tools to do this, and most significant among those is the block chain, which is the software behind Bitcoin.
Patrick M. Byrne -
Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'
Garth Brooks
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I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.
Abby Wambach -
The people that keep coming back every year are diehards. I'll go out there to host a panel and I know half of the audience. I see them, every year, and they come back for more because they believe in us. That's one of the coolest things.
Zachary Levi -
I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
Umberto Eco -
I'm an actor. 99.9% of all actors in the world have been in denial towards the military.
Pilou Asbaek -
Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career.
Geoff Dyer -
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.
Samuel Johnson