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 asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • America
  • Parents
  • Worked

• 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

• My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Cleaning

• It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • True
  • You
  • Brand

• 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 two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one. Which will it be?

  

  Faith Erin Hicks
  • People
  • Value
  • Things

• Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Realizing
  • Views
  • Doctrine

• The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.

  

  Piers Corbyn
  • Moving

• Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything that may help them escape from the situation they are in, even if it's merely a spider's thread, no matter what sort of humans they are.

  

  Yana Toboso
  • May
  • Help
  • Temptation

• 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