Samuel Johnson Quotes
Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.
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As I've always said: The future lies ahead.
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I don't drink hot beverages.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.
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What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.
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I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
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In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.
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How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?
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I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.
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The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
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C'est une maladie naturelle à l'homme de croire qu'il possède la vérité directement…
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A sense of utter loneliness-loneliness inevitable, crushing, eternal, the loneliness of existence, encompassed by the infinite void of unconsciousness-enfolded him as a pall. Life lay like an incubus on his bosom. He shuddered at the thought that death might overlook him, and deny him its refuge.
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We say in popular speech that we come into this world, but we do nothing of the kind. We come out of it. In the same way as the fruit comes out of the tree, the egg from the chicken, and the baby from the womb, we are symptomatic of the universe. Just as in the retina there are myriads of little nerve endings, we are the nerve endings of the universe.
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Rush Limbaugh is a has-been hypocrite loser, who craves attention. His right-wing lunacy sounds like Mikhail Gorbachev, extolling the virtues of communism. Limbaugh actually was more lucid when he was a drug addict. If America ever did 1% of what he wanted us to do, then we'd all need pain killers.
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Earth-worms abound in England in many different stations. Their castings may be seen in extraordinary numbers on commons and chalk-downs, so as almost to cover the whole surface, where the soil is poor and the grass short and thin.
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I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.
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On the Internet, people do not know each other, they don’t have common leaders, sometimes not even a common political goal. But they come together on certain issues. I think that is a miracle. It never happened in the past. Without the Internet, I would not even be Ai Weiwei today. I would just be an artist somewhere doing my shows.
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In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.
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There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people.
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I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.
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At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
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My sporting heroes were Ken Jones, Stanley Matthews, and Cliff Morgan.
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Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.
