Samuel Johnson Quotes
PATRON, n. One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
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I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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I've grown up on TV, and there were some phases that weren't pretty.
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My father, Phillip Gilmore, was very talented. He was getting seriously into dancing. He was on 'Soul Train' and won $2,500. But the Bay Area was too small for him. I don't think he had the space to do what he needed to do.
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It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.
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I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
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Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.
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I'm extremely grateful to all the first responders, veterans and their families for all their sacrifices.
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You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.
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I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.
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PATRON, n. One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
