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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#forced #help #life #long #long life

I know how much more I need to do to be where I want. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#i #know #more #much #need

I need to learn how to face challenges. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#face #how #i #learn #need

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#american #championships #classics #each #feel

We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.' ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#come #decay #dr #housewives #i

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#characters #come #creating #how #i

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#everybody #get #goes #life #movies

We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#aspire #change #folks #how #image

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.' ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#first #first time #get #grew #i

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#choose #films #friends #go #go home