Samuel Johnson Quotes
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.
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On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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He had discharged his destiny; now, perhaps, he could begin to live.
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May the countenance of Prydain be bright for my guidance. Sovereign of heaven, let my messages not be rejected.
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The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high socialites. Paparazzi didn't care about Janis Joplin.
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Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
