Samuel Butler Quotes
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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I'm very happy to come back. I've always had success here and the public is fantastic. I love you, Montreal.
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Society should treat all equally well who have deserved equally well of it, that is, who have deserved equally well absolutely. This is the highest abstract standard of social and distributive justice; towards which all institutions, and the efforts of all virtuous citizens, should be made in the utmost degree to converge.
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Our words tend to conceal what is private and particular in our impressions, and to make us believe that different people live in a common world to a greater extent than is in fact the case.
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The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.
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The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some point you have to decide: Are you going to mindlessly go the easy way or are you going to go the ethical way?
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
