Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes
Mike Tyson notoriously looked for a way out against Evander Holyfield when it was clear Holyfield had his number. Suddenly, Tyson's cowardice in gnawing off Holyfield's ear overshadowed nearly everything he had accomplished as a fighter.
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I don't ever take anything for granted.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.
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Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally dealing with production values.
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I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.
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My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.
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Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.
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I've always been a bit of a lost soul, and I think that goes back to me being adopted and not knowing my roots.
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I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something.
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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.
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Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people.
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They're all crazy. They're all crazy except you and me. Sometimes I have me doubts about you.
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I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.
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I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!
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As a comedian, you have everything working against you.
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You read about these oyster-shucking contests: Somebody did 100 oysters in three minutes, three seconds. I'm lucky if I can open one in three minutes, three seconds.
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I have no idea what 'method actor' means.
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Mike Tyson notoriously looked for a way out against Evander Holyfield when it was clear Holyfield had his number. Suddenly, Tyson's cowardice in gnawing off Holyfield's ear overshadowed nearly everything he had accomplished as a fighter.
