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.

  

  K. Flay
  • World
  • Music
  • Chaos

• No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Help
  • Rules
  • Fast

• 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.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Easier
  • Print

• Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • You
  • Look
  • Open

• 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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Experience
  • Faith

• 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?'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Humorous

• 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.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Great
  • Feel
  • Going

• 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.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Country
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Men
  • Politics
  • Window

• Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.

  

  Ed Markey
  • You
  • Know
  • Year

• A hair divides what is false and true.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • True
  • Hair
  • False

• '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.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Real
  • Book
  • English

• I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • California
  • Grew
  • Phoenix

• If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Home
  • Now
  • Bed

• The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • More
  • Busy
  • Leisure

• Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Real
  • Perfect

• 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.

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • Work
  • Why
  • Freedom

• I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too.

  

  Klaus Schulze Ash Ra Tempel

• Honestly, I spend very little time thinking about past events, and I certainly don't have them ranked in any way. I look back and think that I have done a lot of good work over the years, but I am much more excited about what the future holds.

  

  John Carmack
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does; he's his own guy. He talks through his instrument in a language that's all his own.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Practice

• Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.

  

  James Altucher
  • Night

• Seeing people ahead of time and getting acquainted with the space you're playing in is important to getting comfortable in that place.

  

  Brian Bell Weezer
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I expect to always do well. It's the kind of competitiveness in me. I'm not here to try to just be mediocre.

  

  Billy Butler