Samuel Butler Quotes
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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I don't think there is really much from my career that I want to go back to. I think that, with most of the characters that I've been lucky enough to work with, I've said all I have to say about the Black Panther, Green Lantern, and on and on.
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I want the whole world to watch me fight. But you know if people are just tuning in to hear me trash talk are not fight fans.
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I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
