Samuel Butler Quotes
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
Malcolm Turnbull
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
Xavier Niel
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
Becky G
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
A. Philip Randolph
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
Dan Carter
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If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.
Eddie Murphy
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When people ask me a personal question, I answer it in a personal way. I can only speak from the footsteps and the shoes that I've walked in.
La'Porsha Renae
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It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
Andy Rooney
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
Eddie Redmayne
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I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
Philip Johnson
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler