Samuel Butler Quotes
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.Samuel Butler
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
Rafael Nadal -
The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
Rand Paul -
I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
Laura Innes -
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
Garry Trudeau -
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Vaclav Havel
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
Daniel Gillies -
I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
Wanda Sykes -
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
Manoj Bhargava -
America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
Wayne Grady -
I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
Ice T -
I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
J. August Richards
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To survive is to win.
Zhang Yimou -
This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.
Oliver Tambo -
What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
Garth Brooks -
I have the right to protect myself. I feel like I have very good aim. My wife is better.
Ted Yoho -
My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
Kate del Castillo -
A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.
T. Berry Brazelton
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The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.
Liu Xiaobo -
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
John Ruskin -
Unfortunately being born princess doesn't autimatically make a girl graceful or confident, a fact I've lamented for most of my fourteen years
E.D. Baker -
In defense of the right to...marry whom we please - we might quote some of the basic principles of our government and suggest that in some things individual rights to tastes should control....If a good man from Maryland sees fit to marry a disenfranchised woman from New York, there should be no legal impediments to the union.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel Butler