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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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
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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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To teach pride in knowledge is to put up an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bounds imposed by one's own ignorance.
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There are a lot of negotiators that really will give in on a deal because being understood is more important than getting what they want. And there's a particular type in particular, the assertive negotiator: being understood is actually more important to them than actually making the deal.
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Love is junk.
