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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Being a woman is power. Just because we live in a male-dominated world doesn't mean that you're incapable or less than a man.
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Patience is the best medicine.
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My dad is Dominican, my mother's Puerto Rican, and I got into bachata at the age of 10 or 11. When I started listening, it had a reputation for being music for hick people. I thought that had to be changed. I was born and raised in the Bronx, and I knew you make something cool if you're cool.
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Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy.
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I've been going to Cuba since the Elian Gonzalez affair.
