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.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Think
  • Know
  • Road

• 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.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Bad
  • Mean
  • Underdog

• 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.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • May
  • Freedom

• 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.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Food
  • California
  • Vote

• Stay focused on the mission.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Mission
  • Stay
  • Stay Focused

• 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.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• 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.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Success
  • Attitude
  • Dangerous

• Everybody grows but me.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Me
  • Grows
  • Everybody

• I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Terrible
  • After
  • Turned

• 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.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Goal

• Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Business
  • Run
  • Tell

• The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Opportunities
  • Wherever

• The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • American
  • Woman
  • Down

• I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Perfect
  • Thought
  • Because

• I've never, in my whole 30 years in office, run a negative ad.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Never
  • Run
  • Negative

• You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'

  

  Gary Busey
  • Understanding
  • Thoughts
  • Doubt

• It took a long time for me to get into 'I'm taking care of kids,' and what that means.

  

  Chirlane McCray
  • Time
  • Long
  • Kids

• Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.

  

  Dorothy Kilgallen
  • Bible

• Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • Good
  • Crazy
  • Stupid

• I talk about religion because it's one of the ways human beings find power and belonging. Religion is more than just that - I think faith traditions give us ways to talk about experiences of the numinous, too - but power and belonging are a big part of it.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Power
  • Faith

• 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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