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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I don't need to do only one thing, you know? Even in the entertainment industry, nobody's 'just a singer.'
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... but it's fun being alive, isn't it? I feel as if I'd only got to stretch up my hands to all those stars and catch as many of them as I want to.
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If the Russians still adhered to the Greek Orthodox religion, if they had instituted parliamentary government, and if they had a completely free press which daily vituperated us, then - provided they still had armed forces as powerful as they have now - we should still hate them if they gave us ground for thinking them hostile.
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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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My first customer is myself. When I tell a story I like, I can sleep easy. I'm sorry when audiences don't like it, but I have no choice.
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Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.
