Samuel Johnson Quotes
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what this genre is.' I don't really fit in between Rihanna and Beyonce.
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Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
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You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
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I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom.
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The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and brain behave in inexplicable ways: Less hair on your head, more in your ears and nostrils. More memories in the bank, less synaptic firepower with which to access them. Gravity has started to show its inexorable pull.
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I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.
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Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.
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As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
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My parents were hippies.
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I am so loyal.
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You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them.
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That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.
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Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.
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My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.
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As soon as something becomes 'trendy,' I go off it. I hate the idea of being a sheep and just following a look because I've been told it's fashionable. Individuality makes the world a much more interesting place.
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They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.
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There have been 700 or 800 songs I've written over the last 60 years, as I went through different periods of writing. I listen and marvel at how different they are and how they still stand up. They are very well done, if I must say so.
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Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican.
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You see they'd have fitted him to a T.
