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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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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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.
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Monks mass like a pack of wolves from disputing with the masters who instruct them - They know not when deep dark and dawn divorce nor who sends the wind, nor who moves it, where it disappears to, what land it strikes.
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When you've opened your heart to a child as you have to, there's always the fear that you may discover that the child is not viable. Losing that child is not a position you want to find yourself in.
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Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.
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Its time to smile in this adversity and feel gratitude for everything we have around us.
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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.
