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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I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.
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There's a difference between telling a story and not providing an explanation because you just don't do it well or pull it off.
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Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.
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I've always felt that my life's been at the right place at the right time; I feel like there's been some really dull moments, really high moments, really low moments, but it's always felt like everything's moved in the right direction; it always feels great, and everything feels right.
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Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
