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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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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Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.
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Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.
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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.
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I pinch myself every day anyway. Everyone knows the road I have had in the game and how I have managed to get myself to where I am today.
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The dis-incumbenced stance is the one people should cultivate, we are told, once they recognize that there is no world beyond the human world. They will, indeed must, have their beliefs and values, but they will recognize that these 'lean upon' - and are answerable to - nothing other than human commitments and purposes. The only fidelity, Rorty remarked, can be to our own conventions.
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Weddings have always spooked me.
