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.

Billy Bob Thornton

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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.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Life
  • Wonderful
  • Composer

• When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Myself
  • Will
  • Personal

• 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.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Great
  • Kids
  • See

• You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • World
  • You
  • More

• 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.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • People
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• My parents are opposites who balance each other out.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Parents
  • Balance
  • Opposites

• 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.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Value

• With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • World
  • Balance
  • Own

• Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

  

  Ira Glass
  • Fun
  • Point
  • Hotel

• There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • People
  • Just
  • Leaders

• 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.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Great
  • Home
  • Purpose

• Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Money
  • Character
  • Wings

• If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Respect

• 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.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • True
  • Man
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Know

• Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Children
  • Baby
  • Smile

• 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.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Friends
  • Sports
  • Popular

• I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Music
  • Real
  • Gold

• There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

  

  George Eliot
  • Habit
  • Morality
  • Direct

• I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in search of the keys that open the door to emotions and feelings . Art is the place where rationality, fantasy, truth and fiction mix up in a detonating mixture.

  

  Augusto De Luca
  • Art
  • Feelings
  • Discoverer

• I think the idea, first and foremost, is to understand that people may label these characters as villains, but at the end of the day I have to fall in love with the characters that I play. For me, they have to be real characters with real objectives, and driving forces. So they're all different.

  

  Edi Gathegi
  • People
  • Idea
  • Characters

• I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Society
  • Government
  • Politics

• Other than that, I've taken grief my whole life over the way I played and this and that. I let the criticism roll of my back and use it to get better.

  

  Bob Golic
  • Life
  • Criticism
  • Grief

• 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.

  

  Billy Bob Thornton