Samuel Johnson Quotes

Of Lord Chesterfield This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!

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• I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

  

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• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

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• We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.

  

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• I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.

  

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• When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

  

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• Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.

  

  Vince Lombardi
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• I did a few DJ gigs at empty clubs, sort of as a warm-up set before Flume was a thing. I did one when I got big enough, and I had five friends come down, and they were the only ones dancing. That was one of my earliest ones. I was super nervous.

  

  Flume
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• We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

  

  Gary Zukav
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• When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
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• I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.

  

  Wayne McGregor
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• I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.

  

  Wayne Rogers
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• I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
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• Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

  

  Ambrose Bierce
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• So the people using the Android operating system are now Motorola, Samsung, LG. And they are killing Apple: now, Android accounts for about 80 percent of the market.

  

  Clayton M. Christensen
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• If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• From the church I received a spiritual foundation that has kept me balanced. From the gospel music I learned the importance of singing with emotion- authentic emotion- not contrived- which has made my music endearing.

  

  Oleta Adams
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• The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation, trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.

  

  Alan Bersin
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• Truly, we do live on a 'water planet.' For us, water is that critical issue that we need. It's the most precious substance on the planet, and it links us to pretty much every environmental issue, including climate change, that we're facing.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
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• Sure. I've never dated a woman of anything like that, But, I mean, I think it's much more the person that you fall in love with – and why would you close yourself off to fifty percent of the people?

  

  Natalie Portman
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• Of Lord Chesterfield This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!

  

  Samuel Johnson