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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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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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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Being a father is just wonderful.
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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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I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.
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I describe it as anti-profiling. It's not that I want certain people profiled – I just want us to admit that certain people require less scrutiny, and Jerry Seinfeld is one. When you see a famous celebrity go through security, treated as though he may just have become a jihadist when no one was watching… It's crazy. It is security theatre.
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I think food and education will help stem the poverty of the young people who are being drawn into terrorism every day.
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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.
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When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt.
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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.
