Samuel Butler Quotes
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.Samuel Butler
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar -
I don't like people cleaning my room.
Larry David -
A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
Han Fei -
I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
Patrick Wilson -
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
Zach LaVine
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna -
I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
Salman Rushdie -
I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
C. S. Forester -
I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
Caitlin Rose -
When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.
G. Edward Griffin -
I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
Kat Dennings
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
Dan O'Brien -
Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
Tamae Watanabe -
I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
Paris Hilton -
I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
Kat Graham -
When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
Tanc Sade -
My favorite TV show is probably 'Glee.' I'm a Gleek, like everyone else!
Victoria Justice
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There’s this burnin’ in your chest, man. It’s like the colosseum, man.
Charlie Flynn -
I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
Quincy Jones -
I like people who can and like to make fun of themselves!
Victoria Justice -
I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
J. M. G. Le Clezio -
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler