Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes
Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can't learn much of anything about anyone from an interview.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.
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I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.
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I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
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While a fundamental responsibility of business leaders is to create value for shareholders, I think businesses also exist to deliver value to society.
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When I travel, I have to have blotting sheets. It's so much better to remove the oil than to cover it up because then your skin just looks cakey.
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I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online.
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I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.
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And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.
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Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can't learn much of anything about anyone from an interview.
