Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes
On June 27, 1988, a 21-year-old Mike Tyson made in excess of 21 million dollars for 91 seconds of work. It took him just over 14 seconds to pull in more money than Michael Jordan, in his prime, made for an entire season of work that year.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.
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I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.
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I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of the major media paying attention, I'm not used to that.
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Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'
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I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.
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Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
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On June 27, 1988, a 21-year-old Mike Tyson made in excess of 21 million dollars for 91 seconds of work. It took him just over 14 seconds to pull in more money than Michael Jordan, in his prime, made for an entire season of work that year.
