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 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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We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'
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The race and the nation has its generous enthusiasms and its bursts of admiration for the noble, but its real admiration it gives to those whom it best understands. Fortunately the leaders of the race have more of generosity and fine admiration than have the mass they lead. Left to itself, the mass of the race limits its hero-worship to the lesser, unworthy race of heroes.
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One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
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Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries!
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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.
