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DENNIS WOLFBERG I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.
TOM FELTON Weve talked in general about spin-offs and updating it - we dont have specific plans at this point. ...
BURT FEINTUCH Weve had some moral victories this season. Weve had one-goal losses against teams that did a number ...
EVA LANG I love Andy Warhol!
ANTON YELCHIN I dont really think its all that settled yet, ... Weve got a good group of guys, though. Im sure eve...
AARON KATZ Butler: Do you think I look deaf?
William: Whadda I know. You look like you could be anything.
RICHMAL CROMPTON I thought it was Andy Mangano at first,
GREG COLLINS Weve got a lot more than a lot of people.
IAN WILLIAMSON I would love a robot butler.
BRETT RATNER For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
BIBLE Dean perfected adolescent angst,
DENNIS STOCK I think Rod had some good players in there, and Andy will get some good players in there also. I thi...
GENE BARTOW Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about...
MILOS FORMAN Well, I figured we might as well do it. Andy looked ready.
LARRY TOFANELLI I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it
ANDREW JOHNSON I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.
ANDREW JOHNSON Harry and the Butler
ANTHONY HOPKINS I never knew what 'appiness was until I married Andy - then it was too late
ANDY CAPP I sat in the stands all week and perfected my Canadian accent,
KLETE KELLER Andy is not playing his best tennis. Fernando has improved very much. I think he played his best mat...
HANS GILDEMEISTER I will be studying Andy Warhol and I think we will also be learning about the Rolling Stones, which ...
JERRY HALL [Rasco has also served as a volunteer firefighter and first responder. He graduated from Prairie Gro...
GREG MACK I could tell by his body language that Andy was ready to save it.
COLIN LEE I started from nothing, and it was a long process, but now that my technique has been perfected, I h...
TALILA ABRAHAM'S I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shri...
EOIN COLFER I was named after my grandfather, and he was always called Andy. I don't like it.
ANDY WILLIAMS Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing
organized instruments; intelligence ...
HENRI LOUIS BERGSON I think it's something that's really shocking to the university, but I think it's also very importan...
EMILY JOHNSON So the butler is safe?
DANNY SULLIVAN Rossella, non ho mai avuto la pazienza di raccogliere i frammenti di un oggetto rotto per incollarli...
MARGARET MITCHELL Andy was a great skier. His accident woke a lot of us up. If it could happen to Andy it could happen...
BRIAN MCQUEEN When freshmen and their parents arrive in the Butler quad, they have an expectation that they're goi...
JON HLAFTER He would have no motive whatsoever to set a fire. Mark may be the obvious culprit, as in 'the butler...
DOUGLAS RAPPAPORT From there, I don't think they got any closer. That shot by Andy Wick was probably the biggest of th...
ANDY CERRONI I think a wake-up call is sometimes needed. Andy was here a long time ... now John's in and we have ...
CRAIG CONROY Andy is not playing his best tennis. Fernando has improved very much. I think he played yesterday th...
HANS GILDEMEISTER I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, ...
MARGARET MITCHELL It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice.
EOIN COLFER We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it's ...
DICK VAN PATTEN It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recogni...
JOHANN VON GOETHE My full name is Ross Fleming Butler; it's very British-Irish.
ROSS BUTLER Butler was seeing the world as it was, complete with L.E.P retrival team
EOIN COLFER I think the room has really responded. No disrespect to Andy, but this team is worrying about playin...
JOHN TORTORELLA I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but ...
JOSH DUHAMEL Every time we play Butler it rains, so that's not something new for us.
JOE BRESCHI I'm simpley one hell of a butler.
SEBASTIAN MICHEALIS I think the kids love Andy as he is only just a few years older than them and seems like a normal ki...
PATRICIO APEY Every time I thought that, (Butler) would come down and make a great shot.
DEMOND GARTH Young Leaders: your opportunity will come when it is given. Don't rush what's not perfected yet.
RYAN DE LA ROSA I thought Andy Wick had a really good second half.
ANDY CERRONI Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
ZIG ZIGLAR I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.
DAVID CROSS Bound by custom or unique by choice.
MARGARET MCHEYZER In the East, fames are won.
In the west, deeds are done.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation.
ROGER SCRUTON Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
FRANCIS BACON Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
JOHN RAY I have perfected the art of the mean song to make me feel like I have a backbone.
ELLE KING I think the Andy Griffith stories all have a beautiful moral that we can apply to life, and I wish w...
MARIAN ALBRIGHT [The cascade of industry support will not make Linux] the next NT, ... What it does mean is that und...
ANDY BUTLER For consumers? Not really,
ANDY BUTLER It definitely makes the company leaner and more efficient. But at the computing company that's left,...
ANDY BUTLER They probably haven't gone far enough, but it's a good start.
ANDY BUTLER over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it
MARGARET WEIS Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself...
ANDRE MALRAUX If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.
ROB KARDASHIAN I used to do impersonations: Harry Butler in the wild, or I'd do Gough Whitlam.
DAVID WENHAM The Andy Griffith Show.
ANDY GRIFFITH In The Past, Andy Warhol Will Be Psychic For 15 seconds
DEAN CAVANAGH Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by Death.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.
ELIZABETH BARRET BROWNING I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and...
ALISON BRIE I don't think he was feeling 100 percent, but with Andy Pettitte, he's got the mental wherewithal to...
BRAD AUSMUS It was all my fault. I'd let them in, I'd broken my rules, and I was back at square fucking one!"- ...
SAMANTHA YOUNG I was not feeling too bad. Andy was in worse shape than me in the fifth. I think I was really unluck...
OLIVIER ROCHUS After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife.
THEOPHILUS LONDON It makes it hard to guard us when Melissa and Andy are both hitting.
DEE BELL My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.
ADAM PETTY We have Tar Heel Nation in Butler County, Missouri.
GENE HANSBROUGH So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting,
JULIAN ALLEN At the heart of this all is Andy - was Andy. That's what she loved, helping people one at a time.
DOUG ANDERSON Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS As you walk in love, understanding your entire being, becomes perfected.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.
JEFFREY DEITCH Was Andy Warhol a bisexual?
CASEY AFFLECK Don’t you ever fucking write about me! Andy hollered, and was gone.
MICHELLE TEA All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
SAMUEL BUTLER I'll either play for Huggins or Andy Kennedy. When I came here, that's who I intended to play for. S...
ERIC HICKS Andy pitched a good game. We put Jeff Ickes in a tough spot there. He's a sophomore who never pitche...
JEFF STRATTON It's a show Andy really likes and it was good fun watching him on it,
JAMIE MURRAY If I had just done Dayton and (Butler and Warren) counties, we would be profitable by now.
TOM PEEBLES And that is why I hate dogs."
" . . . woof."
--Sebastian and Ceiel
YANA TOBOSO Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little s...
W.B. YEATS Nous dînerons en Enfer ce soir !
LEONIDAS The first thought is often the best.
- Bishop Joseph Butler,
BISHOP JOSEPH BUTLER She told me the [Butler School] had been torn down.
LARRY MELMAN I think back through the years at the Scottish players like Andy Gray and Graeme Sharp, and even Ale...
RICHARD GOUGH Andy hasn't lost a pro final yet so something's got to give! Seriously, Roger, if he plays his game,...
ROGER FEDERER I can't remember how many fights we've had. It must be at least half a dozen good ones now, in which...
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