Earl Butz Quotes
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that girl.
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.
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All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opinion of others, but I was not that way. I was afraid of the repercussions of not doing what I was told to do, what I was called to do by a creator.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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A small man always has one weapon he can use against a great big man: he can 'talk' about him.
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One hundred years from now Beatles songs may be so well known that every child will learn them as nursery rhymes, and most people will have forgotten who wrote them. They will have become sufficiently entrenched in popular culture that it will seem as if they've always existed, like Oh Susannah, This Land Is Your Land, and Frère Jacques.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
