Samuel Butler Quotes
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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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.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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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'.
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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.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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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.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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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.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
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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?'
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My favorite TV show is probably 'Glee.' I'm a Gleek, like everyone else!
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I don't much like looking back.
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My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of them are his interpretations of the Dust Bowl-era folk songs, or even going back as far as the mass influx of people coming into the U.S. during the gold rush. His interpretations of those songs are incredible.
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There are days I'm feeling lazy, and my mom will remind me, 'Beyonce also only has 24 hours during the day.' That always keeps me going.
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Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience.
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I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
