Billy Butler Quotes
I expect to always do well. It's the kind of competitiveness in me. I'm not here to try to just be mediocre.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
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I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.
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God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
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I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'
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The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points.
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
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Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.
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A hair divides what is false and true.
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'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.
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I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
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If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.
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I enjoy doing my work, and I don't want to deal with the other things. When you enjoy doing your work so much, why deal with where to show, how to show, what to do? If the artist finds the right gallery which respects their work and gives them that freedom to do whatever they want to do, the artist can focus on his work.
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I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.
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The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.
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We're all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away.
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Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.
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People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.
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I expect to always do well. It's the kind of competitiveness in me. I'm not here to try to just be mediocre.
