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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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'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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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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Seduction is the world’s elementary dynamic… All this has changed significantly for us, at least in appearance. For what has happened to good and evil? Seduction hurls them against one another, and unites them beyond meaning, in a paroxysm sudden outbreak of emotion of intensity and charm. (p. 59)
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You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.
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We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.
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Surround yourself with those who won’t compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
