Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
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Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
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We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear our records and I'm not really sure who played what. And we took a bunch of acid together too.
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I have a fairly realistic idea about what my gifts and limitations are.
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I only wear black. I think it suits me.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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My dad was a single father, and he was a hunter.
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When I started running, the pain barrier was very familiar to me, and I had no problem pushing beyond the pain. When for your whole life, every single workout, you are programmed to push beyond belief, it's really hard to just turn that off and kind of just be a social competitor.
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And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.
