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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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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I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.
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I have to live up to the love I am receiving.
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The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.
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My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.
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The upside potential was so high—you could get a good payday with just one thirty-two-bar hit song—and the barrier to entry so low. Anyone could offer his wares—that is, anyone who could handle the indignity of knocking on door after door and being summarily rejected time and again.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
