Samuel Johnson Quotes
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
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I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.
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I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.
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I'm fascinated by historical fashion, and I like to live in the past slightly. If I could walk around all day dressed in a crinoline, I would.
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I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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One of the most important times in my life was the first time that I remember seeing my daddy get onstage and play music with a bunch of guys. All of them playing something different at the same time and all becoming one, and me soaking that in at 5 years old and going, 'That's my daddy up there, and he's a part of something.'
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Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
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I just want to stay professional.
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It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
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I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.
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You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm's length and say, 'Plato, you have delighted and edified mankind for two thousand years. What have you to say to me?'
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The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.
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I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.
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Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if we can't justify it, then we're not going to spend tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, just to make somebody happy, if it's not good for the economy.
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Hail, hail rock and roll; deliver me from the days of old. Long live rock and roll; the beat of the drums, loud and bold. Rock, rock, rock and roll; the feelin' is there, body and soul.
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Maybe at the end of my figure skating career, I'll be able to have just the one game I always dreamed of having. I've still got the skill, I think. I'd have to work on my stick-handling skills, but the speed and my hockey smarts are still there.
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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
