Samuel Johnson Quotes
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
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Peace be upon him who follows the Straight Path!
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Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!
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A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
