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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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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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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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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A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.
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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I'd rather be in my house crying than be sitting with someone talking about shoes, y'know?
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The next time you download a book on Kindle, buy a Michael Moore screed at Barnes & Noble, or order up a political movie from video on demand, remember that it is the Supreme Court's decision in 'Citizens United' that guarantees you the right to do so.
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Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.
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A standard sitcom... is a very standard idea, like these people falling in love and living with each other, and all these people living with each other. It's like, okay, we hooked them up in episode 15, how do we bust that, how do we find a new kernel in it?
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I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'
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I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.
