Samuel Butler Quotes
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
Samuel Butler
Quotes to Explore
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
Orlando Bloom
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My health is fine.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
Oriana Fallaci
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For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
Omar Bongo
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
Karl Abraham
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
Venus Williams
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
Manti Te'o
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
Zac Efron
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
Pat Summerall
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We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.
J. B. Pritzker
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
Barbara Amiel
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
Wayne Dyer
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
Zhang Ziyi
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I believe that the topic of chemical weapons is critically important for international peace and security, and I take note of the ongoing debate over what course of action should be taken by the international community. All those actions should be taken within the framework of the U.N. Charter, as a matter of principle.
Ban Ki-moon
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Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.
Lance Henriksen
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
Ian Smith
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
Jack Bruce
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