Joseph Butler Quotes
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Quotes to Explore
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
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I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.
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My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
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If you don't feel clean, it affects everything you do; you can't even focus right.
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I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.
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It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.
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I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.
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Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.
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When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.
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I like people who take responsibility for their lives.
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I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.
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Barry Bonds in the news. Yesterday Barry Bonds' agent said that Bonds could hit as many as 1,000 home runs. And the agent admitted he's on more drugs than Barry Bonds.
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I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.
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And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.
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Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'
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I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.
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For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
