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So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing.…
— Sophia Bush
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One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and…
— Nolan Bushnell
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The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won't name the…
— Jason Aldean
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I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem…
— Octavia Butler
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
— Samuel Butler
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
— Samuel Butler
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
— Samuel Butler
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
— Samuel Butler
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
— Samuel Butler
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
— Samuel Butler
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
— Samuel Butler
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
— Samuel Butler
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all,…
— Samuel Butler
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are…
— Samuel Butler
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I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I…
— Smedley Butler
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The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes…
— Steve Buyer
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I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.
— A. S. Byatt
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The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this…
— Robert Byrd
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My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
— David Byrne
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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
— David Byrne
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