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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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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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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I started to model because I thought I could use it as an excuse to others, like, 'Yeah, I'm tall because I'm a model.'
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Nothing recedes like success.
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I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
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Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
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Never forget, Americans, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know you're a practical people. Like others, I've marveled at your factories, your skyscrapers, and your arsenals. But underlying everything else is the fact that America began as a God-loving, God-fearing, God-worshipping people.
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
