Billy Butler Quotes
I'm going to consistently hit anywhere between .290 and .310. Anything above that, I'm catching breaks and finding holes.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
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When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
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A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
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Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
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From Thee, great God: we spring, to Thee we tend,Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy, it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all-but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.
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I'm very articulate when I wanna be. You wanna talk to me?
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So my heart finally broke. It was so long bent.And it broke in three places when it finally went.It wanted only to say what it meant.So it suffered every punishment.
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I love to run and I have some tips to keep it fresh and novel. I rarely use the same route twice. That keeps things new.
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Only when we feel the story in each of its moments or places are we able to tell it properly.
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I personally view as very important such ideas as people’s aspiration for perfection and unification, since only a peaceful competition forms the noble basis for the Olympic movement. This is as relevant as ever in the modern world, which opens unlimited opportunities for people, but at the same time is being torn by conflicts, contradictions and standoffs. However, I am an optimist and I strongly believe in the bright future of the international Olympic movement.
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
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I'm going to consistently hit anywhere between .290 and .310. Anything above that, I'm catching breaks and finding holes.
