Joseph Butler Quotes
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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I am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.
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They were all very young, really, too young for all they had seen, but too old not to have seen it.
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Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
