Samuel Butler Quotes
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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It's hard to play basketball when nothing is inside of you.
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Mexico has never been anybody's backyard.
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Ever since we published the first Apple report, we've had some other brands turning more proactive.
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For a lot of us, we feel nostalgic about something with distance, and then [when] we go back to that thing, you remember why we left in the first place.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
