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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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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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
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I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.
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I need to write a sitcom, but something with warmth, not one where the dad comes home and he's treated like an idiot.
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I think I'm better than all the people who are trying to reform me.
