Samuel Butler Quotes
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Novels are longer than life.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
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I have an uncle who lived to 101, and my father died at 95, so I have a second career ahead of me.
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I am an undiplomatic diplomat.
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The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
