Blake Butler Quotes

I'm really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change, I've actually started to think that it's a purer state for people. Because he operates as if he's a child and everything is new, which seems more honest.

Blake Butler

• Different
• Child
• Honest
• Dementia

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• Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Dream

• I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Stupid
  • Smart
  • Realize

• Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Power
  • Clean

• If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Day
  • Balance

• I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Forever
  • Appreciate
  • Shopping

• I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?' And if I wouldn't want them to see it, then it's not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • Want
  • Film
  • Grandma

• Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • World
  • Games
  • Year

• My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Way

• I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

  

  Saadi
  • God
  • Fear
  • Him

• I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Iran
  • North Korea
  • North

• People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Great
  • Why

• I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Art
  • History
  • Training

• You watch movies and see bands you like and copy them and see what you can hold. I mean, it's all down to how you hold what you wear.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.

• I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed.

  

  Janis Karpinski

• One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things.

  

  Mark Goddard
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Amazing

• Hatred observes with more care than love does.

  

  Mason Cooley

• You have to figure out what's important and keep the main points, though I will swing a little outside the box. It affords me the freedom to find out who the character is, and it's been a positive technique for me. I'm not saying everyone should change words, but if you can do it with confidence, you may nail it.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • Important
  • May
  • Character

• There is no doubt that terrorists acting under the banner of Islam have declared war on us.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • War
  • Doubt

• I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • Different
  • Study
  • Waiting

• Chicago is a pretty good town.

  

  Joe Torre
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Chicago

• Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Past

• My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.

  

  Shakira
  • Worry

• I'm really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change, I've actually started to think that it's a purer state for people. Because he operates as if he's a child and everything is new, which seems more honest.

  

  Blake Butler
  • Different
  • Child
  • Honest