Samuel Butler Quotes
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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I like happy endings.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
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I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
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To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
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Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
