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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I'd like to imagine I won't end up in hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.
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I use a pick in my hair without force. You use a lawn mower-you got peat moss.
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As one former prisoner put it in speaking to his fellow citizens, 'Politics is your job. It’s not only for the politicians.' And we have an expression in the United States that the most important office in a democracy is the office of citizen - not President, not Speaker, but citizen.
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Fear is a lonely thing. Even those who love us best cannot get close to us when we are afraid.
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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.
