Geezer Butler (Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler) Quotes
We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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The United States is a beautiful place, you know?
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There isn't just one point; it takes time to learn. You don't have to be intelligent, but I think you have to be open to possibilities and willing to explore. The only stupid people are those who are arrogant and closed off.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.
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We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!
