Samuel Johnson Quotes
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Being evil is easy.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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I'm pragmatic.
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People always thought I'd never get elected outside San Francisco; I was always more worried that I'd never get elected again inside San Francisco.
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I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.
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Human curation allows you to have the emotion and feel music, because it is a very emotional thing. It makes you feel happy; it helps you when you are feeling sad, gets you pumped up, calms you down.
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Say what you would about the dietary requirements, vampirism sure did do great things for the skin and body.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
