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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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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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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The more one presupposes that his own power will suffice him to realize what he desires the more practical is that desire. When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.
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...the really damned not only like Hell, they feel loyal to it...
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What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling.
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Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.
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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.
