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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You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
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If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty.
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Timing's mighty important. In cooking, in life, in love. If the timing goes wrong, you've got to start over. Do it right.
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
