Samuel Johnson Quotes
If the man who turnips cries,Cry not when his father dies,'Tis a proof that he had ratherHave a turnip than his father.
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
Camille Paglia
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
Rand Paul
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
Oliver Hudson
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
Carl Reiner
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
Fabiola Gianotti
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
Ike Barinholtz
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.
Samuel Lover
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. Pritchett
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
Marat Safin
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
Vanessa Mae
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
Maluma
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
Mahershala Ali
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With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
Abraham Maslow
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
T. J. Miller
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
Eddie Redmayne
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Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'
Waris Dirie
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It depends on the way you shoot it. It's something I don't really control. The main goal is to make a funny movie, but then I let my mind go. I get lost sometimes in the writing, trying to find some special zones. That's the excitement of making a movie.
Quentin Dupieux
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The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.
James Daly
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I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.
Joel Edgerton
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Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
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If the man who turnips cries,Cry not when his father dies,'Tis a proof that he had ratherHave a turnip than his father.
Samuel Johnson