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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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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.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.
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I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
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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.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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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.
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My life is exactly the way it needs to be.
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I think it's time for people to stop being so serious about everything.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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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.
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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.
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I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.
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Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
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Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
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Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.
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I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way.
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One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
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Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.
