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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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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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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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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 love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
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When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
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I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
