Samuel Butler Quotes
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
Kate McKinnon -
The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.
Orison Swett Marden -
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
Tacitus -
When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
Quincy Jones -
I liked to play dress-up.
Vanessa Paradis -
I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
Abraham Lincoln
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Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
Galina Vishnevskaya -
Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
Harald zur Hausen -
I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.
Naima Adedapo -
I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
Barry Humphries -
I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
Edith Piaf -
The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
Dan Rosensweig
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
K. D. Lang -
Every note is a lifetime for itself.
Daniel Barenboim -
To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.
Vidya Balan -
It's just fun to be in Paris.
Nanette Lepore -
What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
Gamal Abdel Nasser -
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
H. L. Mencken
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I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.
Kate Upton -
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Louise Erdrich -
Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.
Olivier Martinez -
'When one deals with the Murthe, the unthinkable becomes the ordinary, and Zanzel's repute carries no more weight than last year's mouse-dropping - if that much.'
Jack Vance -
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Samuel Butler