Blake Butler Quotes

I taught them how precisely to explode and still exist.

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• I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Know
  • Kind

• Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • American
  • Pretty

• When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Music
  • Important
  • News

• I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • California
  • New York
  • Texas

• A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Technology
  • Story
  • Old

• Fandom is amazing.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Amazing

• I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • People
  • Young
  • Role Model

• His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered.I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Free
  • Deep
  • Tears

• Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

  

  Elgin Baylor
  • Winning
  • Part
  • Coaching

• Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?

  

  Robert Frost
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Moon

• Don't take this the wrong way but I care more and I'm a better online friend than you. I also spend way to much time online.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Way
  • Care
  • Online

• I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Rich
  • Prove

• Confidence is the greatest friend.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Friend
  • Confidence

• I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

  

  Jane Austen
  • World
  • Convenience

• The ends justifies the means.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Ends
  • Means
  • Justifies

• If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

  

  Brian Joseph Burton Broken Bells
  • People
  • Art
  • Wander

• Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Beautiful
  • Sports
  • Air

• Cryptocurrencies are an emergent property of the Internet - almost a fifth protocol in the Internet suite. If Satoshi Nakomoto did not exist, it would still be necessary to invent them.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Internet
  • Exist
  • Almost

• People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Exist
  • Minds

• If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Find
  • Standing Up
  • Lie Down

• I taught them how precisely to explode and still exist.

  

  Blake Butler
  • Exist
  • Explode