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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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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Akshay Kumar is a senior in the industry, and I consider myself lucky to be working with him. Each film of his opens to a packed house. Today, a film will sell only if you have a story. The audience is smart and won't be taken for a ride. And I'm confident about my movies.
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'Girls' was my first audition. I'd just taken an audition class, and I was excited to implement those tools.
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What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression
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'Fresh Meat' is the first comedy thing I've ever done.
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I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
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Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
