Billy Bob Thornton Quotes
Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
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Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.
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My parents are opposites who balance each other out.
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What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.
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With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
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Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?
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There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
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During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.
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Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.
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If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.
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Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the state attorney of Howard County, Florida. They know I'm a white woman; they know he's a black man. That's not news anymore.
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I've been known to make out with girls from time to time. Couple drinks involved, you know. It's fun. And who knows? Maybe it'll go further someday. I don't know.
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Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.
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Buenos Aires is less than an hour's drive from the ranch, and in the evening, we might meet friends for dinner there. I get recognised a bit, but I'm lucky that polo isn't as popular as other sports.
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I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.
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Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.
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My new dressing goal is to make little kids and babies smile at all the bright, clashing colours I can wear at once. It makes me laugh when I catch sight of my own reflection - life is too short not have fun!
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The week before the (US Open) I gave a few interviews for CNN, USA Network, New York Times, USA Today and Sports Illustrated which had been arranged beforehand. The reason for giving these interviews is not only because working with the media is just part of the job, it is much more my desire to contribute to the promotion of tennis in the U.S.
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Anytime I stepped out on the red carpet in anything pink, I don't know what I was thinking.
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Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.
