Samuel Johnson Quotes
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I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.
Narada Michael Walden
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
Jack Canfield
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
K. V. Thomas
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There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
Sam Harris
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
Walid Muallem
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
Hannes Alfven
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.
Wanda Jackson
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I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
Patrick deWitt
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People always thought I'd never get elected outside San Francisco; I was always more worried that I'd never get elected again inside San Francisco.
Gavin Newsom
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
Napoleon Hill
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I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.
Maggie Cheung
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My life is exactly the way it needs to be.
Octavia Spencer
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I think it's time for people to stop being so serious about everything.
Vicki Lawrence
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
Iggy Pop
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I grew up listening to a lot of different types of music, and R&B in particular was something that I loved - Aaliyah, Usher, Alicia Keys, TLC.
Yuna
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Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.
Tarja Halonen
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I'm not a huge TV person. I don't like having the noise when I'm doing other things unless I'm really lonely, and then I turn the TV on. But I do like to sit down and watch TV in the evenings.
Andie MacDowell
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Step 4: Cough and gag. Step 5: Repeat Step 4 until it feels like maybe your lungs aren't inside your body anymore. Step 6: Remember that a really cute boy is beside you, so try to cough in a far more attractive manner.
Ally Carter
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'Alligator' was the first record that anyone paid attention to, and it seemed like it was the screamy songs that got us that attention.
Matt Berninger The National
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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.
Victor Hugo
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Simple, I don't like the word simple. I like easy better. I want to forget about the technique. I sweat and worry but I don't want it look like that; but you can’t separate the artist and his technique.
Ellsworth Kelly
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Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.
Samuel Johnson