William Allen Butler Quotes
No record of her high descent There needs, nor memory of her name; Enough that Raphael’s colors blent To give her features deathless fame.
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I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
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Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not.
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I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.
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I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't know why. It's a little sick and demented.
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No great man is ever born too soon or too late.
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The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
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I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?
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I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there.
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No record of her high descent There needs, nor memory of her name; Enough that Raphael’s colors blent To give her features deathless fame.
