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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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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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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Sometimes it's easy to see the negative side of things or question why people bully you. You could think, 'Maybe they're right. Maybe I'm not worth it. Maybe I should just quit.' But that's when you should fight the hardest. Now I don't mean fight physically, but mentally. Keep being you.
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I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.
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I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know.
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Every artist is an artist, and every heartbeat is a heartbeat.
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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
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Breakups are hard for anybody, and no matter how it happens or ends up, they're just hard.
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There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun.
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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.
