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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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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If directors, actors and writers have the ability to drop their alpha-male egos, you will always get better work. In terms of my own demands, I actually want fewer lines. If I can lose a line and do it with my face, I'd rather do that.
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I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.
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Entrepreneurs, guys that start businesses, grow with them. It's more painful than it would appear.
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Nobody's madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed.
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Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.
