Samuel Johnson Quotes
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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There's no business like show business.
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When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add to the show, I had this thought that it would be really cool if we had a coup de théâtre. What would they want? And then I was like, an amazing, enormous tuna puppet that was like 30 by 40 feet would be pretty incredible. So I called up Basil Twist, and he got really excited immediately and started sketching out his idea, and I think it's a real highlight of the show.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.
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It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.
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The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the past. We run too fast, but we still do not move enough. He looks but he does not contemplate, he sees but he does not think.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
