Samuel Butler Quotes
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
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Neutrals and lukewarms do not make history.
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If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.
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I'd like to do more acting.
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My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age, and he grew up literally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in my eighth year. We reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
