Billy Butler Quotes
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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
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I believe in eating what I like and sweating it out in the gym.
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I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino.
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My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.
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Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.
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I grew up a daughter of a United States Marine, a daughter of a man so proud to be an American.
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The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.
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We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!
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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.
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Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moment's respite deserve only the end of a rope.
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Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.
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Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
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A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.
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Yes! I know what I have to face. I have to face a coalition. The combination may be successful. A coalition has before this been successful. But coalitions, although successful, have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. This too I know, that England does not love coalitions.
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I'm grounded in who I am, and I am a confident black man. A confident, Nigerian, black, chocolate man. I'm proud of my heritage, and no man can take that away from me.
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Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.
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Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.
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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
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I've always had a bigger body, even when I was 18.
