Samuel Butler Quotes
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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I think we've learned that the S.B.A. plays a critical role in providing access and opportunity when the market is not providing that access. We help banks get that money out into the hands of important and viable businesses, particularly those owned by minorities, women, immigrants and veterans.
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My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.
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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
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Twigs has been my nickname for years, and I guess a lot of people close to me called me Twigs, like, as a nickname. Before I even did dancing properly or anything, like, substantially creative, I was still Twigs.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.
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When people ask me what I think is my best work, it's the bus. There're lots of books, but there's only one bus.
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Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew.
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We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.
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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
