Samuel Johnson Quotes
I Boswell happened to say, it would be terrible if he should not find a speedy opportunity of returning to London, and be confined in so dull a place. JOHNSON: 'Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. It would not be terrible, though I were to be detained some time here.'
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We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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I regret that I can't sit in the stands and watch me.
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, 'This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!'
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I never get bored. There isn't enough time in the day for me.
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There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little different, or there might have been none at all. They would probably add, that, as life and man have been produced, that shows that their production was possible; and therefore, if not now then at some other time, if not here then in some other planet of some other sun, we should be sure to have come into existence; or if not precisely the same as we are, then something a little better or a little worse.
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I Boswell happened to say, it would be terrible if he should not find a speedy opportunity of returning to London, and be confined in so dull a place. JOHNSON: 'Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. It would not be terrible, though I were to be detained some time here.'
