Paul Butterfield Quotes
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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The American dream is still to own your home.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
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There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.
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I hope readers will think that 'The Thing About Life' is beautifully patterned, a tapestry.
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God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator.
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I reprimand people, even those working with me, for littering the roads.
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The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. They deal with promotional people. They deal with financial people. They deal with accountants. They deal with people who work on higher levels. They deal with tax people, but have absolutely no interest in artists, in individual artists, especially very young artists.
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You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
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I think I'm better than all the people who are trying to reform me.
