Samuel Butler Quotes
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Samuel Butler
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There is always pressure in football.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
Ian McShane
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
Imelda Marcos
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Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape.
Hank Azaria
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
Nathan Lane
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
Larry David
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My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.
Kat Graham
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
J. A. Konrath
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?
Yami Gautam
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Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.
Faith Hill
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He sipped at a weak hock and seltzerAs he gazed at the London skiesThrough the Nottingham lace of the curtainsOr was it his bees-winged eyes?
John Betjeman
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When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience of the upright, to become resigned to it is wicked. Although the evil flaunts itself before our eyes, and no remedy is in sight, we must go and seek a remedy. In the creation of the God of Justice, evil can be but a transitory state.
Charles Wagner
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I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
Mads Mikkelsen
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
Larry Elder
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I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of work. It's just about, 'What's a great story? Is it unique? Is it a challenge?'
F. Gary Gray
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Samuel Butler
