Samuel Johnson Quotes
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
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The American dream is about freedom.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.
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It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.
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You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do.
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I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.
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I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
