Geezer Butler (Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler) Quotes
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
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In the Trump era, it's way more obvious extreme racism exists. But there are still a lot of people who think, 'We don't have a racist bone in our bodies.' We have to face the racism in ourselves.
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I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.
