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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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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A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.
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Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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I remain fundamentally optimistic about Wall Street as a marketplace and as a vehicle for wealth creation. Its future will rightly depend on several variables, chief among them being human choices; whether they be rationally, emotionally, subjectively or objectively made. Financial engineering taught us that if it could be quantified, it could be qualified. We learned about how to use leverage and have abused that knowledge for a myriad of reasons. We became practitioners of the transaction-based model, but forgot that long before the abacus there was trust and integrity, anchors of relationship-based models common with Middle East and Asian markets. It goes back to a handshake, the first and enduring example of mutual consensus.
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You see they'd have fitted him to a T.
