Brin-Jonathan Butler quote: "At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us."

While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke t...
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In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there wa...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER

As far as cities go, Havana is a festering treasure chest, a primary color.
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Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their sk...
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In the summer of 2007, two-time Olympic champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and his teammate, Erislandy La...
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Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion...
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Castro always used the boxers as a symbolic war against American values to demonstrate that they fig...
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Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywh...
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Is Duran's 'No Mas' a more defining moment in his career than his victory over Sugar Ray...
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Many of the greatest Cuban boxing champions since the revolution triumphed on the island resisted th...
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Rigondeaux was Cuba's answer to Bobby Fischer who transformed into a kind of Lee Harvey Oswald t...
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Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through h...
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In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's...
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Mike Tyson notoriously looked for a way out against Evander Holyfield when it was clear Holyfield ha...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER

Boxing distills and illuminates the essence of an athlete. There's nowhere to hide. Boxers live ...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER

I was told before my first trip that no city in the world offered the dreams you could have sleeping...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER

Castro branded Rigondeaux a 'traitor' and 'Judas' to the Cuban people.
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER

He's the best practitioner I've ever seen of the Cuban style. But I think that what Rigondea...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER

When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually re...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER

On June 27, 1988, a 21-year-old Mike Tyson made in excess of 21 million dollars for 91 seconds of wo...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER

Hundreds of years ago, the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of c...
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'What comes next?' is the constant question I'm asked by outsiders eager to travel to th...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER

My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hung...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER

I have a dirty little habit of distilling every city I've ever visited into the historical perso...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER

Teofilo Stevenson won his first Olympic gold medal in 1972 and his last world amateur championship i...
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Punching your weight is one of boxing's most sensible rules. It's a handy one to abide by wh...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER

At the heart of all romanticism is suffering.
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER

I'd never seen Rigondeaux's face without it being obscured by headgear or a photograph of Fi...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER

We're a long way away from someone like Willie Pep winning a round without throwing a punch.
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Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful ...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER

In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despit...
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Ali vs. Stevenson would have served as a symbolic battle between the United States and Cuba, capital...
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An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976....
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER

The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a searc...
SERGEY BRIN

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The...
DAVID BRIN

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the ...
DAVID BRIN

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you ...
SERGEY BRIN

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violenc...
DAVID BRIN

I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization do...
SERGEY BRIN

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.
DAVID BRIN

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, rememb...
SERGEY BRIN

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible....
DAVID BRIN

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I ...
DAVID BRIN

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative,...
SERGEY BRIN

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.
SERGEY BRIN

I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormou...
SERGEY BRIN

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. An...
DAVID BRIN

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.
DAVID BRIN

Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.
DAVID BRIN

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in...
SERGEY BRIN

We want Google to be the third half of your brain.
SERGEY BRIN

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain&...
DAVID BRIN

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can ...
DAVID BRIN

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters deve...
DAVID BRIN

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind...
SERGEY BRIN

I don't know what would have happened if we hadn't won that AOL deal,
SERGEY BRIN

Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and ...
SERGEY BRIN

These two chefs will play an important role in managing the company's growing appetites.
SERGEY BRIN

I don't think it's a big deal to show opera glasses to someone searching for binoculars that you som...
SERGEY BRIN

In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true t...
DAVID BRIN

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their pa...
DAVID BRIN

It's clear there's a lot of room for improvement, there's no inherent ceiling we're hitting up on.
SERGEY BRIN

We just want to have great people working for us.
SERGEY BRIN

To me, this is about preserving history and making it available to everyone,
SERGEY BRIN

We believed we could build a better search. We had a simple idea, that not all pages are created equ...
SERGEY BRIN

We gradually came to the realization that we were hurting not just ourselves but the Chinese people.
SERGEY BRIN

We'll see how that evolves. Obviously, it doesn't mean we'll just be willing to do anything that's r...
SERGEY BRIN

I didn't think I would come to this conclusion -- but eventually I came to the conclusion that more ...
SERGEY BRIN

I totally understand that people are upset about it and I think that is a reasonable point of view t...
SERGEY BRIN

I don't think we like the precedent of it, and so we're fighting it. I think we're right.
SERGEY BRIN

We will intensify our efforts to build out our infrastructure overseas and to develop products that ...
SERGEY BRIN

Today, we've begun to make the extraordinary historic films of the National Archives available to th...
SERGEY BRIN

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.
DAVID BRIN

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or e...
DAVID BRIN

Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of ou...
SERGEY BRIN

Is this a horrible future? Or actually a return to what we've always had in the past? Think of old v...
DAVID BRIN

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?
DAVID BRIN

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. Th...
DAVID BRIN

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel wh...
DAVID BRIN

The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.
DAVID BRIN

The notion of a universe filled with cowards... who stay cowardly FOREVER, no matter how advanced th...
DAVID BRIN

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.
DAVID BRIN

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a...
DAVID BRIN

Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle the...
DAVID BRIN

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious r...
SERGEY BRIN

I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have sa...
SERGEY BRIN

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world....
DAVID BRIN

Admit that there is some level that would make even you call yourself the victim of class war.
DAVID BRIN

If facts are inconvenient, well, damn those who live and work with facts.
DAVID BRIN

Change is the very fabric of our time.
DAVID BRIN

While I have the floor, here's a question that's been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writ...
DAVID BRIN

I find humans tremendously interesting.
DAVID BRIN

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.
DAVID BRIN

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.
DAVID BRIN

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from.
DAVID BRIN

Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for R...
DAVID BRIN

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic event...
DAVID BRIN

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every ne...
DAVID BRIN

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.
DAVID BRIN

It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. Th...
DAVID BRIN - THE POSTMAN

When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'Peo...
GERARD BUTLER

Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentab...
JUDITH BUTLER

I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
YANCY BUTLER

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
YANCY BUTLER

I'll try anything once.
YANCY BUTLER

I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I&#...
YANCY BUTLER

I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of t...
YANCY BUTLER

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.
YANCY BUTLER

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him...
YANCY BUTLER

My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega,...
YANCY BUTLER

Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
YANCY BUTLER

To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
YANCY BUTLER

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio b...
SAMUEL BUTLER

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from t...
YANCY BUTLER

A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.
YANCY BUTLER

Don't we all just really try to fake it well?
YANCY BUTLER

I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
YANCY BUTLER

I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
YANCY BUTLER

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

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
YANCY BUTLER

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
YANCY BUTLER

My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
YANCY BUTLER

Women have been kicking ass for centuries.
YANCY BUTLER

People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
YANCY BUTLER

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are tell...
YANCY BUTLER

My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
YANCY BUTLER

I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
YANCY BUTLER

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.
YANCY BUTLER

I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don'...
JUDITH BUTLER

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or somethi...
JUDITH BUTLER

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good st...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to di...
SAMUEL BUTLER

A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We c...
JUDITH BUTLER

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.
FRANK BUTLER

I've had broken bones and cuts and dashes and tears from movies, but when I was five, my mom put...
GERARD BUTLER

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. ...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
OCTAVIA BUTLER

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there'...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if y...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilitie...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - eve...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's ot...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done an...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your ow...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
OCTAVIA BUTLER

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote th...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think ...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
OCTAVIA BUTLER

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some h...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

Most of us don't have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comforta...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops ...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everyb...
GEEZER BUTLER

I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brou...
SMEDLEY BUTLER

Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate represent...
JUDITH BUTLER

I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.
WIN BUTLER

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anyth...
SAMUEL BUTLER

Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. ...
JUDITH BUTLER

I'm not big on the closet.
DAN BUTLER

I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
DAN BUTLER

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so r...
DAN BUTLER

Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
DAN BUTLER

I'm an actor.
DAN BUTLER

Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs...
DAN BUTLER

I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control o...
DAN BUTLER

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them ...
SAMUEL BUTLER

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
SAMUEL BUTLER

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in t...
SAMUEL BUTLER

I went to the Bach Choir concert and heard Mozart's Requiem. I did not rise warmly to it. Then I hea...
SAMUEL BUTLER

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of r...
SAMUEL BUTLER

The money men make lives after them.
SAMUEL BUTLER

The want of money is the root of all evil.
SAMUEL BUTLER

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
SAMUEL BUTLER

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the...
SAMUEL BUTLER

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to r...
SAMUEL BUTLER

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
SAMUEL BUTLER

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survive...
PHILIP BUTLER

Life is one long process of getting tired.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalid...
SAMUEL BUTLER

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does...
SAMUEL BUTLER

When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which...
SAMUEL BUTLER

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
SAMUEL BUTLER

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
SAMUEL BUTLER

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the...
SAMUEL BUTLER

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
SAMUEL BUTLER

At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

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