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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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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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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Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
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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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I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
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If a man doesn't have a dream, then he has nothing to work for. Nothing to get up in the morning. No reason, no purpose, to be
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.
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While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus build the table.
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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.'
