Samuel Butler Quotes
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
Ian McShane
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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
Samm Levine
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
Vince Cable
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
Zebulon Pike
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
Barbara Mikulski
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Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.
Laura Schlessinger
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My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun salutes on the feast day of the local patron saint, or furniture being moved by the slime-buckets living upstairs, and go right on sleeping soundly. But the ringing of the telephone, the triumphal march of the cell phone, or the doorbell, no: Those are all sounds of summons in response to which the civilzed man (ha-ha!) has no choice but to surface from the depths of slumber and answer.
Andrea Camilleri
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We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.
Marianne Williamson
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Music is my first love.
Mandy Moore
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler
