Geezer Butler (Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler) Quotes
I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Tonight, I want to say to every member of the democratic party, who believes in limited government, in personal opportunity and the united States constitution, and a safe and secure America, come home. To the Reagan Democrats, your party has left you. And the Republican party wants you, we welcome you back.
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It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.
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I've always been interested in making movies.
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.
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My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.
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While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish.
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Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
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My strength is my enthusiasm.
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Over the past decade or so, you have seen the flip side of that as you've seen stock prices have come down a lot relative to gold. Now you are getting a change where people are more comfortable holding gold because in the rear-view mirror it doesn't look so bad for gold. Bonds have not come down as much relative to gold, but I think the bond bubble is going to burst and will be falling for years too. And gold will look that much better.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.
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I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in.
