Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes
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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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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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The moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honor falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.
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The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.
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No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoyments.
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Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.
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It wasn't just Shia that would go to Tehran and see the commander of the Quds Force and others and the legitimate government leaders. It was also Kurdish leaders and Sunni Arabs who would even link up with Qassim Suleimani, the commander of the Quds Force - maybe not in Tehran but in Turkey or somewhere else.
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It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
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Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years ago, but he has never improved on God's law. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are the principles by which man may live with God and man may live with man. They are the expressions of the mind of God for His creatures. They are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.
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Weddings have always spooked me.
