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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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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When I was a young kid, girls were taught that their role in life was to get married and have children. It was the 1950s. Those were the rules.
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I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
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A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect.
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I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.
