Billy Butler Quotes
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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I think something happens to us biologically when we have children where the worry sets in immediately. And I don't think that ever goes away. But you have to fight your instincts to build walls up around your children or to want to shelter and protect them from everything.
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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.
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It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.
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I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.
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Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath the throw. It'll give you a little margin for error if you undershoot it a bit.
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You know you're living with the habit of zest if you purposefully choose the scenic route to wherever you are going. Or you choose clothing because you love the texture of the fabric. Or you pick a shampoo or cleaning product because you love the smell - smell being just as important to you as how the product works.
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'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.
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If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
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Envy aims very high.
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From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.
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I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?
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Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays,For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.
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Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.
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The first idea was not our own. Adam In Eden was the father of Descartes And eve made air the mirror of herself,Of her sons and of her daughters.
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As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
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I would be happy to have a gay child. He would be a Boy Scout, and he would teach all the other Boy Scouts how to build a fire with two sticks and a back-handed compliment.
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That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.
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If you look at my history, my history is that of forming bands rather than joining them.
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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
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I grew up in D.C.
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Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.
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In 2012, everything was going right.
