Samuel Butler Quotes
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The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
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Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!
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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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There's more to life than cheek bones.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
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Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
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I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.
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I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with my family in the back of a limousine and someone cracking a joke and us just hysterically belly laughing. It's how we always dealt with tragedy in our lives and I think it's such a healthy way to deal with sadness.
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The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
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My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.
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We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
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Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
