Butch Cassidy Quotes

If E.F. Harriman paid me what he's paying those guys to stop me from robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.

Butch Cassidy

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• I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Country
  • Culture

• From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • House
  • Fantasy
  • Realism

• The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Thinking
  • Alone
  • Feel

• I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • Love
  • Movie

• The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Man
  • Health
  • Too Much

• Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Marriage
  • Balance
  • End

• I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Think
  • Always
  • Theatre

• When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilities so they think differently. Once they understand how to define success and what their role is in success, they make better decisions, and you can push decision-making down.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • People
  • Success
  • Eyes

• In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Family
  • Her
  • Respectable

• I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Worry

• Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • May
  • Past
  • Powerful

• You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.

  

  Eminem
  • Baby
  • Bird

• Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Fear

• Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I still have nightmares about taking tests.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Still
  • Tests
  • Nightmares

• What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Real
  • Friendship

• If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • Art
  • Change
  • Grief

• I just wanted to sing, to get my voice heard. I knew I had to do everything possible to stay in the industry.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Everything
  • Just
  • Industry

• When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame decided to open up the voting beyond their inner circle, to the actual fans, that's when I think everything changed.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Up
  • Rock

• If E.F. Harriman paid me what he's paying those guys to stop me from robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.

  

  Butch Cassidy
  • Guy
  • Paid
  • Robbing