Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
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One wishes to go on. On this great river one could glide forever - and here we discover the definition of bliss, salvation, Heaven, all the old Mediterranean dreams: a journey from wonder to wonder, drifting through eternity into ever-deeper, always changing grandeur, through beauty continually surpassing itself: the ultimate Homeric voyage.
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I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.
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Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
