Samuel Butler Quotes
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Samuel Butler
Quotes to Explore
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If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
Laura Harrier
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
Raekwon
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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
Idina Menzel
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
Maj Sjowall
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
Mahershala Ali
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
Oliver Sim
The xx
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
J. A. Konrath
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
Orison Swett Marden
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Patrick Henry
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
Natasha Trethewey
