Samuel Butler Quotes
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.
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At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
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I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.
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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
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I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
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The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.
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I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.
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The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.
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I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.
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Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.
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The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
