#thing

As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#because #best #best work #bland #down

I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#andrew #director #film #five #go

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#affection #almighty #any #appetite #god

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. ↗

— Smedley Butler

#believe #coastline #defense #else #i

The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#effective #objectives #states #suspicion #terror

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#anything #attracted #because #condition #examining

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#man #nothing #serious #seriously #should

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#dying #leave #off #once #thing

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#anything #art #care #come #else

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#doing #i #own #played #strong