Samuel Butler Quotes
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
Patricia MacLachlan -
When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
Ralph Baer -
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Quentin Crisp -
It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
Jack Ma -
A great painting is a great painting.
Larry Poons -
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
Jacob Bronowski
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Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
Canelo Alvarez -
I'm kind of a private person.
Caitriona Balfe -
Asking what I'd do without Loopt is almost like asking what I would do if I didn't have a smartphone because the feature set has become the norm for me.
Sam Altman -
I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
Idris Elba -
I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
Tamra Davis -
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
Aaron Sorkin
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The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
Carl Yastrzemski -
We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
Mac Thornberry -
I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
Nazanin Boniadi -
I love nothing better than immersing myself in different street cultures; exploring all those neighbourhoods in Tokyo was quite amazing, or visiting Morocco to see an Inditex factory.
Imran Amed -
I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
Waka Flocka Flame -
Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
Sam Harris
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C. S. Lewis -
You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
Jack Dempsey -
I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
Wayne Rogers -
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
B. F. Skinner -
One thing I've always been concerned about is the objectification of women in ads, and that's one thing where I was like, 'Well, if I become a part of advertising, I could change that.'
Yara Shahidi -
Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
Samuel Butler