Edwin Farnham Butler III (Win Butler) Quotes
I think when you've been in a band for a really long time, sometimes you don't appreciate what's good about yourself. It's easy to play something and get too focused on some small detail. It's helpful to have somebody around who can say, "No, that was good." Just so you don't get too lost or forget what you do. You need somebody you really trust who has great taste.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.
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Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
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Never dip lower than you can dip.
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If a great role comes along, and you are too tall to play it, then I think the role is too small for your talents.
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Ars adeo latet arte sua.
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You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.
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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
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I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.
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Where you really get in trouble is if the market is dropping and the economy's slowing down and you don't take action.
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I used my captors' names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.
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I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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I think when you've been in a band for a really long time, sometimes you don't appreciate what's good about yourself. It's easy to play something and get too focused on some small detail. It's helpful to have somebody around who can say, "No, that was good." Just so you don't get too lost or forget what you do. You need somebody you really trust who has great taste.
