Eric Butterworth Quotes
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
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Seeing the energy of 'SNL' made me want to be a part of it. If that was a job, I thought, that was the job I wanted. That was my plan. Comedy.
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It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.
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I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?
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Is it true that the American people are war-weary? Absolutely. We are tired of sending our sons and daughters to distant lands year after year after year, to give their lives trying to transform foreign nations.
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There is nothing worse than annotated humour.
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It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
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Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.
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Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.
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And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.
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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
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Selbst in den äusserlichen Gebräuchen sollte sich die Lebensart der Künstler von der Lebensart der übrigen Menschen durchaus unterscheiden. Sie sind Braminen, eine höhere Kaste, aber nicht durch Geburt sondern durch freye Selbsteinweihung geadelt.
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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
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Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.
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The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
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The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.
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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
