Geezer Butler (Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler) Quotes
When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
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Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.
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I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.
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From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.
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Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.
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Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.
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There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats.
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Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
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I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't feel the immediate need to be playing for people.
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Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
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There's a lot of work that goes into it - if you think about how many collections a year that Karl Lagerfeld has to do, with Chanel and all the other things he does - you can't do that unless you are working 18 hours a day. It's really a lot of hard, hard work.
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I've done all my tricks. I'm tired of myself.
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When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.
