Geezer Butler (Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler) Quotes
Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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Stay focused on the mission.
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In many parts of the world, chaining of people with mental illnesses is not uncommon, nor is seeing people walking around in clearly an unwell state, half naked, and no one takes any notice of them. It is tragic. There is a basic human right, which is not about just healthcare, but it is about the right to life with dignity, a right to citizenship.
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Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.
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Everybody grows but me.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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I really want to keep modelling, but it's not my number one goal in life. But it's so fun. I love doing it; it's just that - it's not like I just want to be a model when I'm older.
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Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.
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The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
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The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
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I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.
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You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'
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Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.
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When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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In a job negotiation, the implementation of that deal is your success that also causes the company to succeed.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.
