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Samuel Butler Quotes

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: british
Birth: December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902

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Father Music Wise Parents Own Like

Although the odds are you're not gonna get the acting job you go out for, it's easier to successfully audition than it is to sit down for a few months and write a movie that's going to actually sell.

Job You Acting Down Go Odds

I never, ever would or did rob anyone in my life.

Life My Life Never Would Did Ever

Statistics on religious affiliation are notoriously slippery: the government isn't allowed to gather such data, and the membership claims of religious organizations aren't entirely reliable.

Stephen J. Dubner

Government Data Statistics Reliable

I've been really, really fortunate to have a mother that has spent many, many long hours on her knees praying for me. And I guarantee you, I would almost bet everything I have that that has saved me more often than not. So it sustains me.

Mother Me Long You More Everything

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

People Hide Create Shadows Profound

It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation.

Music Thinking Surprise Attention

First thing we're going to do with the benefits of tax reform is we're going to invest in innovation. We're going to invest in capital, new product lines. It's going to create more manufacturing jobs and our shareholders are going to benefit, too. We're going to improve dividends, share repurchase.

Dennis Muilenburg

Innovation Create Tax New First

Life for me has always been about timing, and it was bad timing for that disease to hit me; it was time to exit stage.

Life Time Me Bad Timing Exit

I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

Love Want Finally Idea Who OK

I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds.

Time World Trying Living Always Get

And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.

Home Great Together Welcome Flowers

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Looking Way Atom Just Itself

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