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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I went into broadcast journalism. I loved every class I took, I just got anxious because I came to the realization that you're groomed in high school to get good SAT scores to get into a good college or else you're done for.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
