Paul Butterfield Quotes
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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You never forget where you come from.
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I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.
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My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.
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Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.
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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
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In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.
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A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
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In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
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Well it's bulls and blood,It's dust and mud,It's the roar of a Sunday crowd.It's the white in his knuckles,The gold in the buckle,He'll win the next go 'round.It's boots and chaps,It's cowboy hats,It's spurs and latigo.It's the ropes and the reins,And the joy and the pain,And they call the thing rodeo.
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Ah, my Belov'ed fill the Cup that clears To-day Past Regrets and Future Fears: To-morrow! - Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.
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Being called a musical genius was a cross to bear. Genius is a big word. But if you have to live up to something, you might as well live up to that.
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I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.
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I'm a lot like my dad: a little bit of a daredevil. I like an adrenaline rush.
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A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup.
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I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others who don't, that there are those in this hierarchy of pain who own it more than you do.
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The transition from TV to films wasn't overwhelming, since an actor's ultimate job is to act.
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I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that... So I love very curvy girls.
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If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.
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One would think that man would run out of wars.
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I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past -- I want to live now!
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They want to create rather than decimate.
