Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes
My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.

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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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I find it slightly uncomfortable to see my face on a bus or a poster. I like just being known by my friends and family.
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My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.
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Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.
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They are the tough decisions that are needed to get the culture of the game back.
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Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood
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My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.