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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.
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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.
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You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
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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.
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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!
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I drank too much, only champagne.
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There's so much overlapping in science fiction.
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Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the world and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. That's what I think of as the next big one.
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.
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My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.
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What I have realized is I cannot guarantee the absence of discrimination or hatred or prejudice, but I can guarantee the presence of justice.
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He that to ancient wreaths can bring no moreFrom his own worth, dies bankrupt on the score.
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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!
