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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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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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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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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Some people wonder why they can't have faith for healing. They feed their body three hot meals a day, and their spirit one cold snack a week.
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It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.
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Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.
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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.
