Samuel Johnson Quotes
The poet must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I get homesick.
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I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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We live in an oligarchic state where we’ve been rendered utterly powerless. The judiciary, the legislative, the executive branch is all subservient to an oligarchic corporate elite. And the press is owned by an oligarchic corporate elite which makes sure that any critique of them is never broadcast over the airwaves.
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I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.
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I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.
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Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.
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The poet must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
