Samuel Butler Quotes
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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I tend not to look back. It's confusing.
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
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And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.
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My freshman year, I played third, and sophomore and junior, third.
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I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.
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Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.
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Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
