Samuel Butler Quotes
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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I'm no producer's kid.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.
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We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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The presence of a firearm makes us all safer.
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You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
