Samuel Butler Quotes
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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To me, my business is my life.
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I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at all, and I suspected she was soft-pedalling the latter possibility. The effect of a truly execrable adaptation is worse than neutral. The stink rubs off.
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Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.
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I really don't look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don't know their story.
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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
