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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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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The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.
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I have a friend who wanted to practise on my head because they wanted to be a stylist. So I offered what hair I had left to turn white.
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From the first time I did a movie, people have said, 'Oh, it's all going to change now.' And it would change, but very incrementally. I think I prefer that to some big explosion of fame all of the sudden.
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The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.
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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.
