Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
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It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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V-necks are great because you can get a little fat and you still look kind of good - and I like to get fat sometimes, so it's nice. I like to fluctuate between the world of skinny and fat, so V-necks suit me well.
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I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.
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We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
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These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.
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It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.