Samuel Butler Quotes
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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Our favorite holding period is forever.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.
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I had just made this album called 'Mind Blow,' a CD-R release on Spirit of Orr. This was in 2003. Quite a few of the songs from 'Was Dead' were actually on that.
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The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.
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I don't want to rip away the security that people finally have; 18 million people now have healthcare; preexisting conditions are no longer a bar.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
