Samuel Butler Quotes
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
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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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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.
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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.
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Don't trust anyone over 30.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
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Honour to Agamemnon is a thing. That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, A somesuch you might find beneath your bed.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
