Billy Butler Quotes
When you pinch-hit, you know you're getting their best guys, and usually it's a reliever and a guy that's got a really good slider or a really good fastball.
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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I am not honest.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the President trusts me to advise him on things that are important to people with disabilities!
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I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.
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I was a dyslexic kid.
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Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.
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It is not possible that one man can convert another into a piece of property, thus at once annihilating all his personal rights, without the most flagrant injustice and usurpation.
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When you pinch-hit, you know you're getting their best guys, and usually it's a reliever and a guy that's got a really good slider or a really good fastball.
