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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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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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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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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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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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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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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Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
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Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.
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For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
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I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
