Samuel Butler Quotes
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
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The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.
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My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
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There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.
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It's hard separating work from personal life.
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When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.
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We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.
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It took me a while to find myself.
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The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the situation, and do another $10 billion every week, or every 10 days?
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
