Samuel Butler Quotes
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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I can paint in jail.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.
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I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.
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I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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There are two main principles I've picked up over the years as they pertain to cultivating the type of faith that moves mountains. The first is this: Faith comes by looking at God, not at the mountain. The second is this: God gives us faith as we walk by his side.
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Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty.
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The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.
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I'm trying to unify us internally so that we can - instead of firing on each other - fire on the Democrats and communicate a message and start talking about issues.
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
