Samuel Butler Quotes
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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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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A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
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Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
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I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and give him a record, and John Cage just smiled and said, "You know I have nothing to play this on?"
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After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.
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Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
