Butch Trucks Quotes
We've been lucky because quite a few young people keep coming to see us play. We couldn't tour as much as we do if we could only count on the baby boomers.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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At the end of the day, I would like to have the farthest reach in terms of being able to communicate to as many people as possible. So it's not that I enjoy being obscure; it's that I sonically don't want to be situated here or there.
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I was tagged early as the prototypical white player, the guy with the intangibles - the smart player, the guy who did all the right things.
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Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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I think it's really different for me whether I'm touring as part of a larger group or if I'm touring on my own. It's a completely different experience, because when I tour on my own, it's really just me by myself, and I make nice relationships with people.
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We've been lucky because quite a few young people keep coming to see us play. We couldn't tour as much as we do if we could only count on the baby boomers.
