Samuel Butler Quotes
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
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There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.
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I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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'The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world'
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The Americans are very effective and action-driven.
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
