Samuel Butler Quotes
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.
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Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.
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My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.'
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What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.
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It's easier to poke holes in an idea than think of ways to fill them. And it's easier to focus on the 100 reasons you shouldn't do something rather than the one reason you should.
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I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.
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I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.
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Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
