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When a man puts a pistol to my head and tells me to deliver, there is no arbitration.


Samuel Gompers

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SAMUEL LOVER Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
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SAMUEL LARSEN I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
SAMUEL LARSEN I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
SAMUEL LARSEN I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
SAMUEL LARSEN I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
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SAMUEL LARSEN Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
SAMUEL LARSEN There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
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SAMUEL LARSEN He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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SAMUEL HOPKINS However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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SAMUEL FULLER We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
SAMUEL FULLER Surviving is the only glory in war.
SAMUEL FULLER When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE Death and the dice level all distinctions.
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SAMUEL DASH I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.
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SAMUEL DANIEL The wise are above books.
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SAMUEL CHASE By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and den...
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SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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SAMUEL BECKETT All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beg...
SAMUEL BECKETT No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I alw...
SAMUEL BECKETT Do we mean love, when we say love?
SAMUEL BECKETT Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on...
SAMUEL BECKETT You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
SAMUEL BECKETT If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
SAMUEL BECKETT What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
SAMUEL BECKETT It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to r...
SAMUEL BECKETT I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
SAMUEL BECKETT In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
SAMUEL BECKETT If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
SAMUEL BECKETT I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left co...
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SAMUEL BARNETT With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you c...
SAMUEL BARNETT I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky l...
SAMUEL BARNETT The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly reb...
SAMUEL BARNETT My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career t...
SAMUEL BARNETT I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if ...
SAMUEL BARNETT I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind m...
SAMUEL BARNETT I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I...
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SAMUEL BARNETT I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
SAMUEL BARNETT I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
SAMUEL BARNETT Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the lang...
SAMUEL BARNETT It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it&#...
SAMUEL BARNETT This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determi...
SAMUEL BARNETT I feel like I've gotten more than a lot of people will ever get. I feel very fortunate.
SAMUEL BARNETT Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets ...
SAMUEL BARNETT I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and...
SAMUEL BARNETT Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fin...
SAMUEL BARNETT I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.
SAMUEL BARNETT I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to d...
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SAMUEL ALITO Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secul...
SAMUEL ALITO A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation...
SAMUEL ALITO I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.
SAMUEL ALITO I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decisio...
SAMUEL ALITO It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through thei...
SAMUEL ADAMS There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinio...
SAMUEL ADAMS Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a shar...
SAMUEL ADAMS The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ...
SAMUEL ADAMS How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
SAMUEL ADAMS The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peac...
SAMUEL ADAMS It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole teno...
SAMUEL ADAMS We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
SAMUEL ADAMS I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
SAMUEL ADAMS The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
SAMUEL BUTLER That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting win...
SAMUEL LOVER In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities.
XAVIER SAMUEL My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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XAVIER SAMUEL I don't know that many Australian actors in Los Angeles, but there are a few of us. I mean, we k...
XAVIER SAMUEL I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it h...
XAVIER SAMUEL There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
SAMUEL BECKETT The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
SAMUEL LOVER The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
SAMUEL CHASE I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
SAMUEL LARSEN It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of natio...
SAMUEL SMILES Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself...
SAMUEL SMILES The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
SAMUEL SMILES Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
SAMUEL SMILES Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we ...
SAMUEL SMILES Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road...
SAMUEL SMILES Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gi...
SAMUEL SMILES Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing...
SAMUEL SMILES I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
SAMUEL SMILES He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
SAMUEL SMILES Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - th...
SAMUEL SMILES