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Samuel Johnson Quotes

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

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Adversity Man Been Most State Ever

My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.

Jessica Valenti

Work Marriage Mother Together Loss

We look at Donald Trump: his bottom line is interconnected to all kinds of financial interests that he refuses to disclose. They actually affect his net worth.

Financial Worth Look Donald Trump He

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

Martin Scorsese

Father New York Me New Old Thieves

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

City Talk Cruel Hospitals About

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.

Life Work Family Community Day End

You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.

Money College You Go Cheap Lot

If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

Woman Husband Drunk Go Right Dollar

For Hollywood to make 'Spider-Man,' only to redo the movie a couple years later, just boggles the mind. To recast 'The Incredible Hulk' for a third time? I don't get it.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Time Mind Hollywood Years Hulk Get

For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.

Cool Years Out Going France Been

I'll put my record of service up against anyone, bar none.

Service Bar Up Against None Record

You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.

Great You Look Successful Collins

Football, I thought, would be a tough sport to make a living in. There is no minor league. You either make it to the NFL or you don't.

Football Tough Thought You Living

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