Samuel Johnson Quotes
Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.

Quotes to Explore
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
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Millennials give comics the kind of adulation past generations reserved for musicians. We respect Lady Gaga. But we'll travel hundreds of miles to touch the hem of Jon Stewart's robe.
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Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.