Geezer Butler (Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler) Quotes
Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.
