Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
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For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
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Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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We lie more to strangers than we lie to co-workers. Extroverts lie more than introverts. Men lie eight times more about themselves than they do other people. Women lie more to protect other people.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
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I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.
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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
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My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.
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As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent.
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I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.
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'It was an old passion,' he said. 'I haven’t touched a violin for months. I didn’t know what that would be like.''What is it like?' she asked.He began to walk so that she almost missed his answer. 'An amputation,' he whispered.
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I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.
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Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.
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In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.
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So March 2010, we launched Pinterest, and we were at 3,000 accounts. And that wouldn't be so bad if we hadn't started building Pinterest actually in November 2009. And that alone wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't left my job to start a company in May 2008.
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I've been going to Cuba since the Elian Gonzalez affair.
