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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There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth - an open-air art, boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.
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Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.
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I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.
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When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.
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My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
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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.
