Geezer Butler (Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler) Quotes
I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.
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I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.
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You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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I remember the first single I ever bought. I think it was a terrible song called 'D.I.S.C.O.' by a band called Ottawan. It's a really fearless disco track from the '70s or early '80s.
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I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.
