Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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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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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.
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I may not always love you But long as there are stars above you You never need to doubt it I'll make you so sure about it God only knows what I'd be without you…
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English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.
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Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.
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Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.
