Samuel Butler Quotes
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
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Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.
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I have to take care of my family, my team, and my legacy.
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You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.
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He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
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When you start to realize life isn't fair, what do you do: curl up and die or fight every second of the way?
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If I was involved with the NFL, I'd seriously consider adopting some of the rules used in Canada. I've heard, unofficially, of course, some NFL club owners have talked about adding a feature or two. The NFL went for the two-point conversion. Professional sport is entertainment, and the CFL, I believe, is ahead of the NFL in that regard.
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With Parkinson's, you do need more rest.
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Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
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The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
