Billy Bob Thornton Quotes
I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
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I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
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My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
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I usually start my day with a light breakfast of fruit and eggs and take granola bars with me to eat after practice. Lunch and dinner usually consist of chicken over pasta or rice and beans.
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What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.
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I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
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I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can't kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent and does nothing but bring good to the world.
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In The New Poetry I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
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I did the whole struggling actor thing and lucked into being in the right place at the right time and getting involved in the first 'High School Musical.'
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I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.
