Samuel Butler Quotes
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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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It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.
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Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don't insult them, or take something for granted.
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If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.
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I wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextualized - to give them new life as a new kind of fantasy that isn't so cloying and exotic and strange.
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The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.
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It could be anybody abusing drugs. This seminar brought to light all the other testing kits available to the Sheriff's Department.
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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
