Samuel Johnson Quotes
It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
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I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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Anybody can leap off a building.
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I like how the other guys are stepping up. If we keep this up, then Bell does not have to score 25 points a game for us to win.
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I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.
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People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.
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I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.
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I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.
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If we have a phased redeployment where we're as careful getting out as we were careless getting in, then there's not reason why we shouldn't be able to prevent the wholesale slaughter I think some people have suggested might occur.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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It takes some silence to make sound.
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It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.
