Samuel Butler Quotes
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
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The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
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Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.
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I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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The first rounds of a tournament are always tricky because playing tennis takes a lot out of you.
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I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway.' She was like, 'That's not really possible because there is not that much Broadway. So I'll send you out on TV and stuff like that.'
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What you wear can be such an indicator of so many things. You know, how you feel, how you want others to perceive you. So, that is an absolutely essential part of building a character.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
