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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I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.
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Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.
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Sometimes I can wake up and I can beat anyone.
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Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.
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Weddings have always spooked me.
