Samuel Butler Quotes
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?
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You want your coach's blessing.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.
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I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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Choreographing a fight scene is telling a little story. You learn a lot about the characters involved.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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My dad has actually really influenced me musically. I have a weird love for '80s and '90s music. A lot of people are like, 'Are you serious? It's so lame.' But my dad always plays that in the car whenever we're together.
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I was taken to a boarding school when I was four years old and taken away from my mother and my father, my grandparents, who I stayed with most of the time, and just abruptly taken away and then put into the boarding school, 300 miles away from our home.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
