Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes
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I always encourage over-tipping if you can afford it because... share the wealth.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
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I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
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Look at Michelle Pfeiffer: My God, she's 50 years old, but she is still so sexy. If I were into women, I would be totally into her.
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I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
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Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.
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It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.
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You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.
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In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.
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My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.
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Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.
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Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.
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Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.
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Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.
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À celui qui donne un baiser ou un coupRendez un baiser ou un coupMais à celui qui donne sans que vous puissiez rendreOffrez toute la haine de votre coeurCar vous étiez esclaves et il vous asservit
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I feel like when you perform in a period drama, it's so easy to transform yourself into someone else because the costumes are so different.
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And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.
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I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.
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Love is junk.
