Norbert Leo Butz Quotes
I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I'm curvy.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.
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Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.
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Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
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Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.
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The Who quite possibly remain the greatest live band ever. Even the list-driven punk legend and music historian Johnny Ramone agreed with me on this.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
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On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
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Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.
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I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified.
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Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.
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Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.
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I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.
