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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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
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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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Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist.
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I never really think too much about my voice.
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unconcerned but not indifferent
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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.
