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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She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.
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I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.
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The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presence of primordial depth all art is but dream and nature.
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We know that men are saved by repentance and faith, and whoever does call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. But salvation is a supernatural work of God that will always produce fruit. And the evidence, not the cause, but the evidence of salvation is a changed life, a changing life.
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It's a question I often ask myself: what would I do with me? And I don't know the answer. I don't know what I'd do, except run away.
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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.
