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 thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.
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I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.
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In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.
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It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
