Samuel Butler Quotes
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I like to prove people wrong.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.
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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'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!
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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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When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
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Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.
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I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.
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Sex should be a deepening of communication, not a substitute for it.
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Trump can spend virtually an unlimited amount of his own money on this election, which makes him unlike any of the other candidates in the race. So those who oppose him will have to work very hard to make sure he doesn't win.
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I have always been one to encourage perseverance.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
