Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
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As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.
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People work hard.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it.
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.
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I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.
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I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
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I broke my uncle's toy as a kid and never told him about it.
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I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.
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Sometimes I need to go for a walk for inspiration.
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Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.
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The world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing the hell out of some people that have been hurting us. That's all. That's the end of it.
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Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.
