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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Truth

• I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

• Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Fight
  • See
  • Before

• 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.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Long
  • Success
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Health
  • Care
  • Modern

• As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Country
  • Real
  • Reflection

• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Racing
  • Birds

• I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Important
  • Old

• 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.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • World
  • Mind
  • Brain

• 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.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Know
  • Worry
  • Temple

• 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.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Long
  • Today
  • Jesus

• My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Parents
  • Said
  • Times

• Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

  

  Quintilian
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  • Fools

• Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.

  

  Harry Browne
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  • Work
  • Money

• He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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  • Desire
  • Possessed

• I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Same
  • Year
  • Jeans

• My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking heart may bless, Find our mortal world enough; Noons of dryness find you fed By the involuntary powers, Nights of insult let you pass Watched by every human love.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Heart
  • May

• We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • Way
  • Wrong

• We're (millennials) looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Christianity
  • Millennials
  • Authentic Christianity

• I have always been thankful that so many of our country's greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.

  

  Bob Latta
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  • Country
  • Earth

• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Society
  • Source
  • Stupidity

• I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

  

  Billy Bob Thornton
  • Life
  • Time
  • Experience