Samuel Johnson Quotes
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On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.
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It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.
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I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.
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This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
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No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,And tempted her out of her gloom.
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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
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Poetry is the subject of the poem, From this the poem issues and To this returns. Between the two, Between issue and return, there is An absence in reality, Things as they are. Or so we say. But are these separate?
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
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He was a lawyer before he worked his way up to pimping.
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Tenure actually delivers a doubly whammy to the organizations that endure this outmoded arrangement. The second-rate people who thrive in a tenured environment like nothing more than to surround themselves with more mediocrity and drive out those who might excel and reveal the shortcomings of the entrenched.
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Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.
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It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.
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Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company.
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I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.
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Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
