Samuel Butler Quotes
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.
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Have I told you I have cancer? It's a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul.
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It is important to note, further, that the morality which the prophets had in mind in their strenuous insistence on righteousness was not merely the private morality of the home, but the public morality on which national life is founded. They said less about the pure heart for the individual than of just institutions for the nation.
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The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
