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I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.


Samuel L. Jackson

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NEVE CAMPBELL I've never had difficulty dominating any market I've been in.
STEVE WYNN I've always been conscientious and hardworking. I've never wasted time.
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ALAN PARKER I've never been a yes man.
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FREDDIE HIGHMORE I've never been a bad boy.
JOHN MAYER I've never been a size 0.
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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 a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
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SAMUEL LARSEN Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
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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.
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SAMUEL LARSEN I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
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SAMUEL LARSEN Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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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 My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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SAMUEL HOPKINS Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
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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 When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
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SAMUEL FOOTE He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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SAMUEL DANIEL The wise are above books.
SAMUEL DANIEL And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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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.
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SAMUEL BECKETT Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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...
SAMUEL BARBER I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York R...
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