Samuel Johnson Quotes
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.Samuel Johnson
Quotes to Explore
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
Kate Klise -
I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
Haley Bennett -
A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
Walter Salles -
I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
Idris Elba -
Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
Foster Friess
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The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
Mandy Moore -
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben -
I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
Pat Metheny -
My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
Pat Robertson -
I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
Nadine Velazquez
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
Kalpana Chawla -
I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.
Lake Bell -
I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
Beau Mirchoff -
If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
Larry Brilliant -
Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
Rachel Griffiths -
If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
Zac Brown Band
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I think it's so important for somebody like me to stand up for the things I believe in and speak up on things I don't think are right.
Adam Rippon -
I had a Taco Bell audition where I had to wear a huge sombrero and walk around like an idiot. I got call-backs for the movie 'Twister,' did small independent stuff that I won't name. But it led to all my breakthrough moments on 'Entourage.'
Mark Cuban -
We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
I have white hair now, but a lot of it, and I'm still very glamorous, and so I won't disappoint, I hope! I'll still be wearing the tight leather trousers and high-heel boots, regardless of what age!
Kate O'Mara -
The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.
Thich Nhat Hanh -
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Samuel Johnson