Samuel Butler Quotes
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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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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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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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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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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I like happy endings.
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If you start to focus on your opponent then you see so much quality in your opponents and weaknesses in your own side. You start to put doubts in your mind. You need to respect your opponents but that's it, no more.
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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
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It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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The idea of America's religious groups fighting over the limited public money to be made available takes us down the road towards the kind of sectarian competition that has torn so many nations apart, and which our separation of church and state has spared us.
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
