Samuel Butler Quotes
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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I just couldn't live without dogs.
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I don't have anyone's number; I just Facebook them.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
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I just roll with the punches.
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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Money just draws flies.
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My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
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Because I didn't go to film school, I had a collection of books that were inspiring or taught me how to make movies, shorts with my friends back in Brooklyn, and one of those books was How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime which is Roger's autobiography. After reading that, I realized that oh my God, this guy is behind all my favorite Pam Grier movies. Oh my God, he made the Vincent Price Poe films that ran on television when I was little. He did Grand Theft Auto. He made Death Race 2000.
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Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.
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If we are one in purpose, spirit, principle and faith, then it doesn't really matter if we are always of the same opinion. Opinions change and can be easily altered by time, experience, and circumstance. But principles, purposes, spirituality, and faith are enduring values that can bind us as one despite disagreement or dispute.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
