Edwin Farnham Butler III (Win Butler) Quotes
There's the idea that you have to know how to solve the world's problems in order to feel that something is morally wrong. I'm always back and forth between optimism and depression about the situation.
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Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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There are a lot of people on Instagram desperately trying to keep up with the Joneses.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There is no foreign domination; there is minimal foreign interference. The Cold War has ended. The Soviet Union no longer exists. The United States is showing minimal and diminishing interest in the Muslim world. They now have to confront their own problems. The old excuses are gone. The old justifications are gone and therefore the anger of people is turning increasingly against their own rulers.
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Chimpanzees will eat a little bit of meat. But, they never eat dairy products, and no other animal would do that.
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There's the idea that you have to know how to solve the world's problems in order to feel that something is morally wrong. I'm always back and forth between optimism and depression about the situation.
