Samuel Butler Quotes
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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Love, and do what you like.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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I do feel like I've missed out a bit because I was really close with my sisters when I was at home. It must be weird for them but they cope really well.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
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A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
