Samuel Daniel Quotes
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.
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Hospitality knows no gender or race.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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I think 'Oz' is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, that's pretty intense.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
