Samuel Butler Quotes
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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Psychiatry causes so much death.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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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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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
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My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.
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For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.
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I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
