Samuel Johnson Quotes
Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
Samuel Johnson
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You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.
Viggo Mortensen
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I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.
Gabrielle Reece
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I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.'
Irvine Welsh
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Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
Daniel Alarcon
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I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.
Felicity Jones
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Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
Mahavira
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Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.
Wallace Stevens
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America's most dangerous export was never nuclear weapons or Jerry Lewis-or even Baywatch reruns. It was, is, and probably always will be our fast-food outlets.
Anthony Bourdain
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Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live
Leo Tolstoy
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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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McGregor is a great fighter, and he is doing his job very well. He is very intelligent; he knows exactly what he is doing.
Anderson Silva
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Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall.
Douglas Rushkoff