Edwin Farnham Butler III (Win Butler) Quotes

I find myself a lot more open to bands if I just hear their song. It gives you an opportunity to engage with the thing itself and not be overwhelmed by everything else that surrounds it.

Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire

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• Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Free
  • Political
  • Minimum Wage

• In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Up
  • Man
  • Feel

• Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • World
  • Blue
  • Born

• You must always do what you feel is right.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • You
  • Always
  • Feel

• In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Experience
  • True
  • Emotional

• I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Real
  • May
  • Fashion

• It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Nice
  • Again
  • Be Nice

• Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • War
  • Always
  • Human

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Acting
  • Living
  • Creating

• In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Chance

• Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Single
  • Day

• I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • Money
  • Business

• I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • People
  • Attention
  • Noticing

• We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Different
  • Effect
  • Delightful

• If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Sharing

• I like the ability to engage intellectually with someone. I get so bored so quickly, so if you can't keep me interested, then I'm out.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Bored

• Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Music
  • God
  • Experience

• I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Want
  • Project

• I've always been transgender, and I always will be. Having said that, my spirit is feminine. If you had to divide humanity into two groups, I would sit with the women.

  

  Anohni
  • Women
  • Humanity

• I find myself a lot more open to bands if I just hear their song. It gives you an opportunity to engage with the thing itself and not be overwhelmed by everything else that surrounds it.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Song
  • Giving
  • Opportunity