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Samuel Butler Quotes

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Man Fighting Know First Leave Off

You have to be awake at 6 a.m., when everyone else is asleep.

Matthew Ashford

You Everyone Awake Everyone Else

Even with the success of 'Once,' I can't think about making theater straight for Broadway. Too nerve-racking.

Success Think Broadway Even Straight

I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.

News Google Up Keep Tech General

Wait until the baby is born before you start criticising it, I say!

Baby Wait Start You Born Say

Seeing, say, 'My Left Foot,' and 'The Last of the Mohicans.' How is that the same person? Or people like Johnny Depp, who can play Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands. I am so interested in the transformation, in not knowing anything about them and watching somebody create a character. I'm not really interested in personalities.

Character I Am People Transformation

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.

Mary Lou Retton

Worth Test Ultimate Athletes

The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal work or 95 years for a corporate work. That length doesn't encourage more authorship - it merely limits the speakers who could share powerful speeches, books, and films.

Life Work Death Limits Powerful

Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.

Monica Bellucci

Risks Grow Want Try Glamorous Take

We wanted to do something really, really different, something next level, and use new technology and things.

Technology New New Technology Next

Our focus is still on country, but, really, on whatever music our artists are making.

Scott Borchetta

Music Focus Country Whatever Artists

I think there are some things I am unable to fully express with my visual work, and the music is what fills that void. At the same time, I don't think you can fully appreciate the music without the anchor of the visual work.

Work Music Time I Am Think You

When I was in Chicago, I was working as a carpenter while I was doing plays. I thought it'd be a fun set construction job, but it turned up to just be a straight-up factory.

Job Fun Construction Thought Doing

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