Samuel Butler Quotes
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Quotes to Explore
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.
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I think lower wages have made men much less marriageable than they were before. It's not just like your job goes to hell. Your marriage goes to hell. You don't know your children anymore. Your children have a higher chance of being screwed up.
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Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
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Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
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Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
