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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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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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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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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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.
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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
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I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.
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For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.
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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.
