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 wanna meet the person who wrote the Burlington Coat Factory thing, but that's cool. I would love to understand it more, but everything is good.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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Let every man be true and every god a liar.
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Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
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Most people don´t like to think, period.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
