George Arthur Buttrick Quotes
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
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I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.
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I don't rely on my figure to sell records.
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No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society
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Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
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Michel Platini is a good player, not a great player
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I was ashamed to let anyone know that I was living in a shelter. I remember one time coming home and some kids saw me and were like, "What you doing here? This is a shelter!" But I was like, "My mom's working there." It was pretty embarrassing.
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Habit is necessary to give power.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.
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What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
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within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.
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Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.
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I have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and learn ten pages of dialogue to do with a bunch of creeps I don't like. It's gotta be fun for me.
