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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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.
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I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
