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• Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Character, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.305

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• Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn.
  [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]

  Samuel Johnson

  Authorship, Touched

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• Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.

  Bill Vaughan

  Memorable, Details, Analysis

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• No craving void left aching in the soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Soul, Void, Craving

  'Eloisa to Abelard' (1717) l. 91

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• O execrable son! so to aspire
  Above his brethren, to himself assuming
  Authority usurped, from God not given.
  He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,
  Dominion absolute; that right we hold
  By his donation; but man over men
  He made not lord; such title to himself
  Reserving, human left from human free.

  John Milton

  Son, Men, Titles

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.365

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• I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.

  Lulu

  Past, Want, Next

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• My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

  Marv Albert

  Games, Ordinary, Court

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• In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.

  Craig Childs

  Two, Water, Secret

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• The essence of Bonham is what he didn't play rather than what he did play - what he left out.

  Robert Plant

  Essence, Play, Left Out

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• I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time.

  Peter Mayhew

  Character, Thinking, Skins

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• Im always happy when Im left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

  Maximilian Schell

  Nice, Left Alone, Always Happy

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• I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

  Patrick Dempsey

  California, Important, Looks

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• I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really feel like people who have left before me have always stayed with the show. They never really quite left, which is nice. Everyone kind of stays close.

  Fred Armisen

  Nice, Night, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.

  Vinnie Jones

  Football, Home, Second Chance

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• In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.

  Scott Adkins

  Thinking, Influence, Film

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• If the media isnt slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?

  Adam Carolla

  Media, Worried, Affiliation

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• I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.

  Adam Carolla

  Views, Land, Two

  "Adam Carolla keeps rants fast, loose" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I love mysteries. To fall into a mystery and its danger ... everything becomes so intense in those moments. When most mysteries are solved, I feel tremendously let down. So I want things to feel solved up to a point, but there's got to be a certain percentage left over to keep the dream going. It's like at the end of Chinatown: The guy says, 'Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' You understand it, but you don't understand it, and it keeps that mystery alive. That's the most beautiful thing.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Dream, Fall

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• I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - because I wanted a film career. But as I get older, I find myself being drawn back to my roots, and I'm loving it.

  Charlie Cox

  Careers, Roots, Tvs

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• I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Children, Home, Support

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

  Tika Sumpter

  Weed, Moving, Down And

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• If the javelin had hit me 10cm to the left, it would have punctured my lung, 20cm higher the throat, which would have been the worst-case scenario. Just 1cm higher and it would have hit bone, muscle and tendon and that would have been the end of my sporting career.

  Roman Sebrle

  Careers, Worst Case Scenario, Javelin

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• A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

  Milos Zeman

  Wings, Idiot, Dangerous

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• I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.

  Helen Van Wyk

  Hands, Left Hand, Painting

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• In the days of Ram Mohan Roy when English education was introduced in this country, the Mahomedans did not accept it... They did not accept English education and at the same time they were divorced from the culture which their fathers had advanced. The result was that whereas the Hindus got on in life, got into government employment, got many things which people value in life, the Mahomedans were left without it and gradually there came to be a sort of estrangement between the two nationalities at the time of the Swadeshi movement.

  Chittaranjan Das

  Country, Father, Government

  "Collected Works of Deshbandhu" by Manindra Dutta, 1917.

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