Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I try to eat pretty clean, pretty good food.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.
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42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
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I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
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My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.
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If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
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Why push people away? I love when people come up to me and say they appreciate the work!
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I love doing voiceover work.
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I would have 55 dogs if I could. I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter.
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I'm not a superhero - I'm a super worker!
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What they call 'play' (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.
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Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
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If the law tries to legislate our 'yeses' and 'noes' it will produce 'the straitjacket generation' – a generation afraid to flirt, fearful of finding its love notes in a court suit. Date rape legislation will force suitors and courting to give way to courts and suing.
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What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.
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Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.
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Weddings have always spooked me.
