Edwin Farnham Butler III (Win Butler) Quotes
When I was younger, bands helped me connect to part of my humanity; bands that had nothing to do with anything political helped to form me. There's a correlation in that: If people can connect to music, maybe they can connect to each other.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don't feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it's like I'm doing my job.
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I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.
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For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four years did I feel confident enough to be like, 'Okay, I feel good about starting to put stuff on the Internet where it lives forever.' As opposed to one time at a college sketch show where it bombs and we never speak of it again.
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I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.
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I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.
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I spend like $2 million a year on Chinese food and pizza for ten people in the studio who don't sing or produce.
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Many people - especially those people who earn livings by convincing editors and bookers that rich and influential strangers consider their thoughts and opinions interesting - have ideas about who should or should not run for president.
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I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.
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When I was younger, bands helped me connect to part of my humanity; bands that had nothing to do with anything political helped to form me. There's a correlation in that: If people can connect to music, maybe they can connect to each other.
