Samuel Johnson Quotes
He that thinks himself capable of astonishing may write blank verse: but those that hope only to please must condescend to rhyme.
Quotes to Explore
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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I think people do expect something a little weird to happen. Maybe they've seen something I did once on the Internet and expect that I'm gonna do that every night.
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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
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Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.
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The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.
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He that thinks himself capable of astonishing may write blank verse: but those that hope only to please must condescend to rhyme.
