Samuel Johnson Quotes
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
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In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.
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Army life don't agree with me.
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I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.
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You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
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Vertical intergration is an organizational response to the contracting difficulties that attend intermediate product markets where trades that are supported by transaction-specific assets are exposed to hazard.
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This gorgeous Chinese girl gets up and I fell in love instantly.
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Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters.
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If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.
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Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandolier. And poets are the snipers.
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Women will risk their lives to protect children, but rarely risk their lives to protect an adult man.
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I was officially advised that during the long vacation it might be profitable to attain at least a nodding acquaintance with the curriculum, and thus stave off the already likely possibility that I would receive a degree classified so low it would be tantamount to a certificate of mental disability.
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I'd been a Bond girl and in Dracula films and 'Coronation Street,' but I was always hunting for work. After 'The New Avengers,' I never had to wait for work again.
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Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
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For generations, Americans who aren't rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots - want a country where people who work hard can succeed, where the same rules apply to everyone. They expect to have their own shot at getting rich. But increasingly, they are seeing that the game is rigged.
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Then I studied theology in college, and when I was getting a Ph.D. in literature, I took courses in New Testament studies and studied Greek versions of the Gospels.
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As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.
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The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.
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Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.
