Samuel Johnson Quotes
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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When Jesus prayed the model prayer we call the Lord's Prayer, his first requests were that God's name be shown reverence, that his kingdom come, that his will be done.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
